ok

noun

1. Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

   “We can start as soon as we get the OK.”

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

verb

1. (transitive)To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.

   “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.”

2. (transitive)To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

   “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.”

adj

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.”

   ““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.”

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 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.”

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.”

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?”

   “‘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.”

5. (alt-of, informal)Alternative letter-case form of OK.

adv

1. Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.

   “The team did OK in the playoffs.”

intj

1. Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.

   “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.”

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…”

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.
6. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of OK (“okay”).

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.
2. A language family spoken in Papua New Guinea.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Ok.: Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.