alright

Etymology
Univerbation from. Compare 🇨🇬, equivalent to.

Adjective

 * 1)  ; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order.
 * 2) * 1662 : Cantus, songs and fancies, to three, four, or five parts, both apt for voices and viols : with a brief introduction to musick, as is taught by Thomas Davidson, in the Musick-School of Aberdene by Thomas Davidson, iii. sig. B/1
 * Where ever I go, both to and fro
 * You have my heart alright.
 * You have my heart alright.

Interjection

 * 1)   OK.
 * 2)  ; hello; how are you.

Usage notes

 * Some distinguish between alright and by using alright to mean "fine, good, okay" and  to mean "all correct". Alternatively (or in addition to the previous), Alright may be used as an interjection akin to "OK", while all right is used in the sense of "unharmed, healthy".
 * The contracted term is considered nonstandard by Garner's Modern American Usage and American Heritage Dictionary. Indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that although analogous forms exist in words such as, and  (and, indeed, ), "the contracted form is strongly criticized in the vast majority of usage guides, but without cogent reasons". The Oxford Dictionaries also conclude that "alright remains nonstandard" and that it is "still regarded as being unacceptable in formal writing". Other dictionaries and style manuals also consider it incorrect or less correct than.