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O.K.

O.K. is the alternative form of OK.

Meaning of OK

Adjective

OK (comparative more OK or OKer, superlative most OK or OKest)

  1. All right, acceptable, permitted.
    • Is it OK if I spend the night?
  2. Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
    • The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
  3. Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
    • If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.2012, Roni Jay, The 10 Most Important Things You Can Do For Your Children
  4. In good health or a good emotional state.
    • He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
    Synonyms:
    fine, well

See all 15 meanings of ok

Forms of O.K.

comparativemore O.K.
superlativemost O.K.

Questions about O.K.

What is O.K. the alternative form of?
O.K. is the alternative form of OK.

Words near O.K. in the dictionary

  1. o.b.o.
  2. O.C.
  3. O.D.
  4. O.G.
  5. O.G.s
  6. O.K.
  7. O.M.
  8. O.M.G.
  9. o.n.o.
  10. O.O.
  11. O.P.P.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: O.K. (page history and authors); OK (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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