okay

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.okhunky-dorycool

   Similarsatisfactory

   colloquialism

1. 1.

   in a satisfactory or adequate manner

   “she'll do okay on her own”

   “held up all right under pressure”

   SynonymsO.K.all rightalright

   colloquialism

Other forms of okay

plural

okays·

past tense

okayed·

present participle

okaying·

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 okay

What does okay mean?

okay means "an endorsement". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in okay?

okay has 2 syllables: o-kay. The stress falls on "kay". In IPA it is /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/.

What is another word for okay?

Close synonyms include O.K., OK, okey, okeh, approve. 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 okay a common word?

okay 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 okay?

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