n. pl. OK’s or o·kays

Approval; agreement: Get your supervisor’s OK before taking a day off.

adj.

Agreeable; acceptable: Was everything OK with your stay?

Satisfactory; good: an OK fellow.

Not excellent and not poor; mediocre: made an OK presentation.

In proper or satisfactory operational or working order: Is the battery OK?

Correct: That answer is OK.

Uninjured; safe: The skier fell but was OK.

Fairly healthy; well: Thanks to the medicine, the patient was OK.

1. all right; proceeding normally; satisfactory or under control: Things are OK at the moment.

2. correct, permissible, or acceptable; meeting standards: Is this suit OK to wear to a formal party?

3. doing well or in good health; managing adequately: She’s been OK since the operation.

4. adequate but unexceptional or unremarkable; tolerable: The job they did was OK, nothing more.

5. estimable, dependable, or trustworthy; likable: an OK person.

– adverb

6. all right; well enough; successfully; fine: She’ll manage OK on her own. He sings OK, but he can’t tap dance.

7. (used as an affirmative response) yes; surely.

8. (used as an interrogative or interrogative tag) all right?; do you agree?

– interjection

9. (used to express agreement, understanding, acceptance, or the like): OK, I’ll get it for you.

10. (used as an introductory or transitional expletive): OK, now where were we?

– noun

11. an approval, agreement, or endorsement: They gave their OK to her leave of absence.

– verb (used with object)

12. to put one’s endorsement on or indicate one’s approval of (a request, piece of copy, bank check, etc.); authorize; initial: Would you OK my application?

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ORIGIN

mid 19th cent. (originally US): probably an abbreviation of orl korrect, humorous form of all correct, popularized as a slogan during President Van Buren’s re-election campaign of 1840 in the US; his nickname Old Kinderhook (derived from his birthplace) provided the initials.

All Correct

In old english they sometimes spelled words differently and worked out the abbreviation to O. K.

German for alle klar (all clear)

Choctaw: okeh (it is so)

Obediah Kelly (postal worker who would put his initials on all postal boxes once he approved them)

p.s okay…. is actually O.K people think that ‘okay’ is a word and that “o.k” is short for ‘okay’ its not, ‘okay’ is completely made up because people forgot that ‘o.k’ was actually supposed to an abbreviation.