Adjective okay has 1 sense
- all right, fine, ok, o.k., okay, hunky-dory - 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"
Antonym: unsatisfactory (indirect, via satisfactory)
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Adverbial okay has 1 sense
- okay, O.K., all right, alright - in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right')
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Noun okay has 1 sense
- O.K., OK, okay, okey, okeh - an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead"
--1 is a kind of sanction, countenance, endorsement, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur
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Verb okay has 1 sense
- approve, O.K., okay, sanction - give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"
--1 is one way to authorize, authorise, pass, clear
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