ok

Noun (1) capitalized: OK

OK (plural OKs or OK's)

1. Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.
   • We can start as soon as we get the OK.

   Synonyms:

   approval, endorsement, green light, go-ahead, nod, thumbs up

Verb capitalized: OK

OK (third-person singular simple present OKs or OK's, present participle OKing or OK'ing, simple past and past participle OKed or OK'd or OK'ed)

1. (transitive) To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.
   • I don't want to OK this amount of money.
   • I'll need to OK that with my boss.
2. (transitive) To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
   • Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.2001, Mike Collins, Pro Tools: Practical Recording, Editing and Mixing for Music Production
   • When you OK the crop, the image size will be adjusted to match the front image resolution.2008, Martin Evening, Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers

   Synonyms:

   approve, greenlight

Adjective capitalized: OK

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

1. All right, acceptable, permitted.
   • Is it OK if I spend the night?
   • 'Everything O.K. so far as I have found,' was the reassuring answer.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

   Synonyms:

   allowed, all right, permissible, jake

2. Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
   • The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
   • I watched her pale complexion and her creaseless school uniform as she shyly introduced herself in front of the class, and decided she was no different from all the others in Saginomiya Girls’ High School: rather smart, from an OK family, at any rate OKer than mine, with enough time and money to...2004, Chu-Ching Chen, “The Returnee”, in Tony Bradman, editor, Skin Deep, London: Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 222

   Synonyms:

   adequate, all right, not bad, satisfactory, jake

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.
   • Are you OK?

   Synonyms:

   fine, well

Adverb capitalized: OK

OK (comparative more OK, superlative most OK)

1. Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.
   • The team did OK in the playoffs.

   Synonyms:

   adequately, satisfactorily

Interjection (1) capitalized: OK

1. Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
   • I promise to give it back. – OK.
   • Let's meet again this afternoon. – OK.

   Synonyms:

   okey-dokey, okeh, okey, k, 'kay, m'kay, A-OK, all right

2. Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
3. 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…

   Synonyms:

   now, now then

4. Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
   • You always do this to me! When we were at your mother’s, you said that… – OK, OK, …
5. Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: OK

OK

1. (abbreviation, postal) Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.

   Synonyms:

   Oklahoma, Okla, Okla.

Noun (2) capitalized: OK

OK (plural not attested)

1. (Hong-Kong, no plural) Karaoke.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ok

Ok

1. A language family spoken in Papua New Guinea.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Ok

Ok

1. (abbreviation, alternative) Alternative form of Ok.: Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.

   Synonyms:

   Oklahoma, Okla, Okla.

Interjection (2) capitalized: Ok

1. (alternative) Alternative form of OK (“okay”).