ok

1. 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”

   Synonymsall rightfineo.k.okayhunky-dorycool

   Similarsatisfactory

   colloquialism

1. 1.

   an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence

   Synonymsvery wellfinealrightall right

Other forms of ok

plural

oks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ok

What does ok mean?

ok means "a state in south central United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ok?

ok has 2 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈoʊˈkeɪ/.

What is another word for ok?

Close synonyms include Oklahoma, Sooner State, Okla., O.K., okay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ok a common word?

ok is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ok?

13 words rhyme with ok. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.