okay

Meanings

1. 1
   intj

   used to express agreement, acceptance, or readiness to move on

   Okay, I guess they will eat it.

2. 2
   adj

   satisfactory, acceptable, or not in difficulty

   The damaged radio was old but still okay.

3. 3
   adv

   in a satisfactory or adequate way

   The children managed okay on their own for a while.

4. 4
   verb

   to approve, authorize, or give permission for something

   The director okayed the revised launch plan.

A respelling of OK. The abbreviation was first printed in Boston in 1839 as a humorous shortening of oll korrect, a deliberate misspelling of all correct. It soon spread through political campaigning and became one of English's most widely used expressions.

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