Thesaurus:how are you
English
Phrase
Sense: generic, informal greeting
Synonyms
- alright me babber (UK)
- alright me lover (UK)
- ay up me duck (UK)
- hiya doin' (US)
- how are things
- how are you
- how are you diddling (UK)
- how are you doing
- how are you getting along
- how are you going (Australia, NZ)
- how bist (UK)
- how do you do
- how farest thou (obsolete)
- how goes it
- how goes the battle
- how goes the war
- how're you
- how's every little thing
- how's everything
- how's it going
- how's it hanging (among males, vulgar)
- how's life
- how's things
- how's tricks
- what cheer (obsolete)
- what gives
- what's cooking
- what's doing
- what's good
- what's going on
- what's happening
- what's in the bag
- what's new
- what's up
- you alright (UK)
Holonyms
Various
- alright [⇒ thesaurus] (UK)
- howdy (US)
See also
Further reading
- “532. news” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “how are you” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.