Definition of "all right" []

• In proper or satisfactory operational or working order: checked to see if the tires were all right. (adjective)
• Acceptable; agreeable: Delaying the repair is all right by me. (adjective)
• Informal Satisfactory; good: an all-right fellow; an all-right movie. (adjective)
• Correct: Your answers are all right. (adjective)
• Average; mediocre: The performance was just all right, not remarkable. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Reception of administration by a chapter without such letters brings excommunication reserved to the pope, together with privation of the fruits of the benefice; and the nominee loses ipso facto all right to the prelacy."
• "Generally speaking, it is all right to communicate with the people in your subdepartment."
• "I started for the door when he asked, “Is everything all right with Telleo?”"