OK
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
adv
intj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.
Inflected forms:
form: OKs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: OK's
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: O.K.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: o.k.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ok
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: okay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: O. K.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: o. k.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: okeh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: okey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: okie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: OKs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: OK's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: OKing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: OK'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: OKed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: OKed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: OK'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: OK'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: OK'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: OK'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: O.K.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: o.k.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ok
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: okay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: O. K.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: o. k.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: okeh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: okey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: okie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more OK
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: OKer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most OK
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: OKest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: O.K.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: o.k.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ok
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: okay
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: O. K.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: o. k.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: okeh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: okey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: okie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more OK
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most OK
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: O.K.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: o.k.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ok
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: okay
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: O. K.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: o. k.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: okeh
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: okey
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: okie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: O.K.
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: o.k.
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ok
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: okay
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: O. K.
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: o. k.
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: okeh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: okey
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: okie
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.
pos: noun
examples: We can start as soon as we get the OK.
gloss: To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I don't want to OK this amount of money.
In the data case, Judge John Bates has OK’d four depositions, while green-lighting other discovery requests from the challengers.
gloss: To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.
When you OK the crop, the image size will be adjusted to match the front image resolution.
gloss: All right, acceptable, permitted.
pos: adj
examples: Is it OK if I spend the night?
'Everything O.K. so far as I have found,' was the reassuring answer.
“A Summer Places”s simple thesis is that sexual promiscuity among the young is OK in general but it’s even more OK if the adults have a record of adultery and it’s even OKer than that if everybody has lots of money. But who wants to go slumming (even morally) in an armchair?
If someone has been transparent about their journey with GLP-1s, it’s OK to ask specific follow-up questions, she adds.
gloss: Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
pos: adj
examples: 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 allow her to muse over where to get the latest version of tamagochi or that tartan dress with an above-knee hemline advertised in Seventeen.
gloss: Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: In good health or a good emotional state.
pos: adj
examples: He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
Are you OK?
‘Are we OK? Is this—?’ She made a gesture to include their two bodies. / ‘This is the OKest I’ve been in years.’
In France, the French postal service La Poste provides a subscription service in which postal workers visit elderly subscribers to make sure they are okay, do not need anything, and provide brief social interaction.
gloss: Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.
pos: adv
examples: The team did OK in the playoffs.
gloss: Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
pos: intj
examples: I promise to give it back. – OK.
Let's meet again this afternoon. – OK.
Shut up! – OK, OK.
OK! I get it! Stop nagging me!
Come by this afternoon. — Okay.
gloss: Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
pos: intj
gloss: Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
pos: intj
examples: OK, I'm thinking of a number…
gloss: Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
pos: intj
examples: You always do this to me! When we were at your mother’s, you said that… – OK, OK, …
gloss: Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.
pos: intj
Antonyms: NG
forbidden
bad
inadequate
poor
unsatisfactory
ill
poorly
sick
under the weather
unwell
badly
inadequately
unsatisfactorily
Related words: oll korrect
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Derived words: A-OK
A-okay
Horn OK Please
k
'kay
kthxbye
m'kay
okay
OK, boomer
OK'er
okey-dokey
OKish
OK please
OK, zoomer
you OK
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