alright.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Univerbation from all +‎ right. Compare 古期英語 eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”) (from eall +‎ riht), equivalent to al- (“all”) +‎ right.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/
  • (Northumbria) IPA: /ˌɑːˈɹiːt/
• (colloquial) IPA: /ɔːˈɹaɪt/, /ɒˈɹaɪt/, /əˈɹaɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/
• (Canada) IPA: /ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/
  • (Ottawa Valley) IPA: [ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t], [ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt], [ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt], [-ʔ]
• 韻: -aɪt
• Homophone: all right

形容詞

alright (not comparable)

1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order.

   Synonyms: acceptable, adequate, fine; see also Thesaurus:satisfactory

   • 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.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     [I]f I went by his advices every blessed hat I put on does that suit me yes take that thats alright the one like a wedding cake standing up miles off my head […]

   • 1932, Langston Hughes, Goodbye, Christ:

     You did alright in your day, I reckon—
     But that day's gone now.

   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 40:

     Bladyughfoulmoecklenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippatappatupperstrippuckputtanach, eh? You have it alright.

   • 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, page 105:

     "You're alright Johnny," she said in a way that actually made him feel alright. At least for a little while.

派生語

• bit of alright
• you're alright

副詞

alright (not comparable)

1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of all right.

間投詞

alright

1. (informal) Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK.
2. (UK, informal) A generic greeting; hello; how are you.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hello

派生語

関連する語

• (greeting): alright me babber, alright me lover

使用する際の注意点

• Some distinguish between alright and all right by using alright to mean "fine, good, okay" and all right 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 already, altogether and always (and, indeed, although), "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 all right.

派生した語

• → Afrikaans: ôraait
• → Dutch: olrijt
• → Malay: orait
• → Norwegian: ålreit

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