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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all- right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine" [syn: all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory] n
1: a state in south central United States [syn: Oklahoma, Sooner State, OK]
2: an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead" [syn: O.K., OK, okay, okey, okeh] adv
1: an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence [syn: very well, fine, alright, all right, OK]

Merriam Webster's

I. adverb or adjective or okay Etymology: abbreviation of oll korrect, facetious alteration of all correct Date: 1839 all right II. noun or okay Date: 1841 approval, endorsement III. transitive verb or okay (OK'd or okayed; OK'ing or okaying) Date: 1888 approve, authorize IV. abbreviation Oklahoma

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj., adv., n., & v. (also okay) colloq. --adj. (often as int. expressing agreement or acquiescence) all right; satisfactory. --adv. well, satisfactorily (that worked out OK). --n. (pl. OKs) approval, sanction. --v.tr. (OK's, OK'd, OK'ing) give an OK to; approve, sanction. Etymology: orig. US: prob. abbr. of orl (or oll) korrect, joc. form of 'all correct' 2. abbr. US Oklahoma (in official postal use).

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see okay

Dictionary of Ro

after

Moby Thesaurus

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