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or okay
1
as in alright
being to one's liking
that dinner was OK, but I liked yesterday's better
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2
as in satisfactory
of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards
this latest draft of the essay is OK but could be better
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or okay
1
as in fine
in a satisfactory way
you did OK on that last test
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2
as in yeah
used to express agreement
OK, fine, I'll go to the party
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or okay
as in approval
an acceptance of something as satisfactory
our supervisor gave his OK on the project, so we can go ahead with it
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or okay
1
as in to approve
to give official acceptance of as satisfactory
a judge will have to OK the search warrant
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2
as in to accept
to have a favorable opinion of
I'm glad that my friends OK'd my choice of girlfriend
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Recent Examples of OK
Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 27 Sep. 2025
Gates visited Koie’s mountainside studio in Gifu with Koie’s daughter, who shared that her father would be okay with the studio decomposing into the mountain.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Others had been saying from the beginning that the relationship was okay.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 23 Sep. 2025
How To Tell If Your Lawn Needs Dethatching Some amount of thatch in your lawn is okay.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
Still quieter than the music playing and the grunts of the adults flopping, the yelling of Tap and You okay?
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
None of this boosts employee morale, okay?
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Sometimes your humor won't hit, and that's okay.
—Anne Sugar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The first time should have been okay.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Noel Cymone Walker, StyleCaster, 25 Sep. 2025
Problems so painful that users are okay paying to solve it.
—Jay Sen, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Is everybody recovering okay from the Stonehenge incident?
—Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
And if not, and if someone wants to go, what a weirdo, okay fine, all good.
—H. Alan Scott
jennifer Cunningham, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Some of the effects, done by Lucas’s ILM, hold up okay, and Val Kilmer seems to be having a good time as the defender and sidekick of Warwick Davis’s Willow, but this sort of genre doesn’t seem to be up Howard’s alley.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
These items may work okay immediately following a flood, only to fail later due to contamination by dirty water, according to AAA Wisconsin.
—Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
More recent offerings—from The Idea of You to Netflix’s My Oxford Year—have left me longing for a time when the economy was okay-ish, NPR was still funded, and Emma Stone still made broad comedies.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2025
Manley said Canada is doing okay despite the economic uncertainty.
—Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
What’s not okay is the hypocrisy of backing forceful legislation that restricts what people, trans and otherwise, can do with their own bodies.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 27 Sep. 2025
Gates visited Koie’s mountainside studio in Gifu with Koie’s daughter, who shared that her father would be okay with the studio decomposing into the mountain.
—Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2025
Others had been saying from the beginning that the relationship was okay.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 23 Sep. 2025
How To Tell If Your Lawn Needs Dethatching Some amount of thatch in your lawn is okay.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
Still quieter than the music playing and the grunts of the adults flopping, the yelling of Tap and You okay?
—Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
None of this boosts employee morale, okay?
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Sometimes your humor won't hit, and that's okay.
—Anne Sugar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The first time should have been okay.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
That extra step takes the hairline from okay to flawless.
—Noel Cymone Walker, StyleCaster, 25 Sep. 2025
Problems so painful that users are okay paying to solve it.
—Jay Sen, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Is everybody recovering okay from the Stonehenge incident?
—Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
And if not, and if someone wants to go, what a weirdo, okay fine, all good.
—H. Alan Scott
jennifer Cunningham, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Some of the effects, done by Lucas’s ILM, hold up okay, and Val Kilmer seems to be having a good time as the defender and sidekick of Warwick Davis’s Willow, but this sort of genre doesn’t seem to be up Howard’s alley.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
These items may work okay immediately following a flood, only to fail later due to contamination by dirty water, according to AAA Wisconsin.
—Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
More recent offerings—from The Idea of You to Netflix’s My Oxford Year—have left me longing for a time when the economy was okay-ish, NPR was still funded, and Emma Stone still made broad comedies.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2025
Manley said Canada is doing okay despite the economic uncertainty.
—Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
There were also issues with an overlapping property line, apparently okayed in the 1970s but not allowed now.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for OK
Adjective
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First, Netflix received rave reviews and an impressive haul of Emmys for Adolescence, an eerie and unsettling four-part limited series that posited that kids today, young men in particular, are not alright.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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Santana's first two months in his age-39 campaign were alright, but the bottom quickly fell out.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The answer was not satisfactory to management, sources say.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows told USA TODAY that since its initial request for the information in July, the department hasn't given her satisfactory answers about how the information would be used.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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That worked fine into June until pitchers started to go down, but now only Holmes and Peterson are still healthy.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Several members of his team came over to help, trying to adjust the rest and eventually rolling a new chair over for the rest of the day’s testimony — which seemed to at least go fine on that level.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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By September, that balance had inched upward to 44 percent approval and 53 percent disapproval—a modest improvement.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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On the economy, the survey found a 40% overall approval of the president's actions, with 59% disapproving.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
21 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The spending watchdog agency echoed its 2019 criticism of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a lack of oversight of administrative costs associated with state initiatives approved in the name of Medicaid reform.—
Margaret Coker,
ProPublica,
24 Sep. 2025
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Looking for a way to speed up that process, the Cubs approved Tucker’s recent suggestion to travel to Florida to work with a physical therapy group near his home.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Advertisement Arisu accepts responsibility, and rolls a seven.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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The findings, if widely accepted, would push back the emergence of our own species by 400,000 years and dramatically reshape what’s known about human origins.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Jodie Chavious, a board member of the Slow Food Sacramento chapter and owner of the Chavious Pop-Up pizza truck, said representing small farmers was vital to promoting the core tenets of Slow Food — being good, clean and fair.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Just for good measure, award-winning country superstars like Cody Johnson, Ashley McBryde and Lainey Wilson would be inclined to agree.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Much more than a simple exploration of queerness at a time when lesbians relationships were not socially acceptable, the film is also an extended essay about desire and longing.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
25 Sep. 2025
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Scrambled to a marginally acceptable 10-6 straght-up, but two games under against the spread will never be OK.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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“OK.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/OK. Accessed 28 Sep. 2025.
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