Dictionary Definition
ok adj : being satisfactory or in satisfactory
condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but
are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine";
"things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another
minute I'd have been fine" [syn: all right,
fine, o.k., okay, hunky-dory]
Noun
1 a state in south central United States [syn:
Oklahoma, Sooner
State]
2 an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go
ahead" [syn: O.K., okay, okey, okeh] adv : sentence-initial
expression of agreement [syn: very well,
fine, alright, all right]o.k.
adj : being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an
all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all
right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things
are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute
I'd have been fine" [syn: all right,
fine, ok, okay, hunky-dory] n :
an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead" [syn: OK, okay, okey, okeh] adv : in a satisfactory or
adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right
under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all
right') [syn: okay,
all
right, alright] v :
give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies" [syn:
approve, okay, sanction] [ant: disapprove]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviated fanciful spelling of "all correct" as part of a fad for similar comical abbreviations (of which no others have survived) in the United States in the late 1830s.Noun
- endorsement;
approval
- We can start as soon as we get the OK.
Synonyms
Translations
endorsement; approval
- Dutch: oké, groen licht, goedkeuring
- Estonian: OK, olgu
- Finnish: OK
- Hindi: ठीक (thīk)
- Hungarian: OK, oké
- Punjabi: ਠੀਕ (ṭhīk)
- Spanish: aprobación, visto bueno, okey
Verb
- to approve
- I don't want to OK this amount of money.
Adjective
- all
right, permitted
- Do you think it's OK to stay here for the night?
- satisfactory,
reasonably good; not exceptional
- The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
- in good health or a
good emotional
state
- He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
Synonyms
- (all right, permissible): allowed, all right, permissible
- (satisfactory): adequate, all right, not bad, satisfactory
- (in good health or a good emotional state): fine, well
Antonyms
- (all right, permissible): forbidden
- (satisfactory): bad, inadequate, poor, unsatisfactory
- (in good health or a good emotional state): ill, poorly, sick, under the weather, unwell
Translations
all right, permitted
satisfactory
- French: satisfaisant
- Vietnamese: được, đâu vào đấy, OK
in good health or in a good emotional state
Adverb
- satisfactorily, sufficiently well
- The team did OK in the playoffs.
Synonyms
- (satisfactorily): adequately, satisfactorily
Antonyms
- (satisfactorily): badly, inadequately, poorly, unsatisfactorily
Interjection
OK!- An utterance expressing exasperation, similar to
"all
right!"
- OK! I get it! Stop nagging me!
- Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the
importance of what is being said.
- OK, I'm thinking of a number...
See also
Etymology 2
OK
- Oklahoma, a state of the United States of America.
Mandarin
Interjection
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Adverb
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Extensive Definition
OK is a form of the word okay, and it may also refer
to:
In abbreviations and acronyms:
- Oklahoma (United States postal abbreviations)
- Czech Airlines (IATA airline designator)
- Circle K, an international chain of convenience stores, known as OK in Hong Kong and Taiwan
- Organized Konfusion, a hip hop group
- One Kamerun Party, a political party in Cameroon
In magazines:
- OK!, a British celebrity magazine
- OK magazine, a Dutch pro-pedophile activism publication by Vereniging MARTIJN
In music:
- "OK" (Big Brovaz song)
- "OK" (Farin Urlaub song)
- Ok (album), by Talvin Singh
- OK (Chang Chen-yue album)
- Okay (German band), aka O.K., a 1980s German pop group
- "O.K.", a real single by the fictional band The Little Ladies, from the UK television series Rock Follies of '77
- OK!, a Pokémon theme song
In other uses:
- OK (dinghy), a racing dinghy
- Ok (glacier), a shield volcano in Iceland
- OK-Supreme, a British motorcycle manufacturer
- OK Budućnost Podgorica, a Montenegrin volleyball club
- OK FM Naga, a Filipino radio station
- OK Hotel, a bar and music venue in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
- OK Kosher Certification, a food-products certification agency
- OK Liga, a Spanish rink hockey league
- OK Soda, a soft drink
- OK Range, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada
See also
OK in Czech: OK
OK in Danish: OK
OK in German: OK
OK in Esperanto: Ok (apartigilo)
OK in French: OK
OK in Korean: OK
OK in Italian: OK
OK in Hungarian: OK
OK in Dutch: Ok
OK in Norwegian: Ok
OK in Japanese: OK
OK in Finnish: OK
OK in Swedish: Ok
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
John Hancock, Roger, absolute, absolutely, accede to,
accept, acceptable, acceptance, accord, accord to, accredit, accurate, ace-high, acquiescence, adequate, adherence, admiration, admire, admissible, admission, admit, affirm, affirmance, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative
voice, agree to, agreeable, agreed, agreement, all right, allow, allowance, alright, alrighty, amen, approbation, approval, approve, approve of, as you say,
assent, assuredly, authenticate, authentication, authorization, authorize, autograph, aye, bad, bang-up, be willing, benediction, better than
nothing, bless, blessing, bonzer, boss, bully, but good, by all means,
certainly, certification, certify, charter, compliance, condescend, confirm, confirmation, connivance, connive at,
consent, consent to
silently, cool, corking, correct, cosign, countenance, countersign, countersignature,
crackerjack,
da, dandy, dead right, decent, deign, delicious, dispensation, dispense, ducky, eagerness, endorse, endorsement, esteem, exactly, fab, fair, fairish, faultless, favor, favorable vote, fine, fine and dandy, flawless, gear, give consent, give leave,
give permission, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give the
word, give thumbs up, go along with, go-ahead, good, good enough, goodish, grant, great, green light, groovy, have no objection,
hear, heavy, hold with, hot, hunky-dory, imprimatur, indeed, indeedy, initial, ja, jam-up, just, just dandy, just right, just
so, keen, keep in
countenance, leave,
let, letter-perfect,
liberty, license, mais oui, make
possible, marvy, mean, meticulous, moderate, most assuredly,
naturally, naturellement, neat, nifty, nobby, nod, nod assent, not amiss, not bad,
not half bad, not refuse, not so bad, notarization, notarize, of course, okay, oui, out of sight, pass, pass on, pass upon, passable, patent, peachy, peachy-keen, perfect, permission, permission to
enter, permit, positively, precisely, presentable, pretty good,
promptitude,
promptness, proper, quite, rather, ratification, ratify, readiness, really, release, respect, respectable, right, righto, ripping, rubber stamp, rum, sanction, satisfactory, say amen to,
say aye, say the word, say yes, scrumptious, seal, seal of approval, second, sigil, sign, sign and seal, signature, signet, slap-up, smashing, solid, something else, special
permission, spiffing,
spiffy, stamp, stamp of approval, straight, straight-up-and-down,
stunning, submission, subscribe to,
subscription,
sufficient, support, sure, sure thing, surely, swear and affirm, swear
to, swell, take kindly to,
tenable, the nod, think
well of, ticket, ticket
of admission, tidy, to be
sure, tolerable,
tough, truly, undersign, underwrite, unexceptionable,
ungrudgingness,
unloathness,
unobjectionable,
unreluctance,
uphold, validate, validation, very well,
viable, view with favor,
visa, vise, voice, vote, vote affirmatively, vote aye,
vouchsafe, vouchsafement, waiver, warrant, well and good, why yes,
willingness, wink
at, wizard, workmanlike, yea, yea vote, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes
sir, yes sirree, yet, yield
assent