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Definition: O.k. |
O.k.Adjective1. N awkward stupid person oafish adj : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" Oahu. 2. Gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic; used to seal a joint against high pressure oaf. 3. England) the basic level of a subject taken in school O ring. 4. (informal) 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" adv : (informal) 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') O level. 5. N awkward stupid person oafish adj : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" Oahu. 6. Gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic; used to seal a joint against high pressure oaf. 7. England) the basic level of a subject taken in school O ring. 8. (informal) 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" adv : (informal) 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') O level. Noun1. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai); the chief island of the state Oahu Island n : an islan. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
o.k. | Dutch | Onderkast | Computing, Publishing & Graphic Arts |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: O.k. |
| Non-English Usage: "O.k." is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (legit). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Big Beef at the O.K. Corral (1974) O.K. ... Laliberté (1973) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) O.K. Nerone (1951) Yi yao O.K. (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | O.K.. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | O.K., buddy, the ban's off. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Twenty members of the committee say it's O.K., and I think we can count on Shipstead ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | O.K., if you both want to keep on eating that indigestible stuff!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | O.K., boys, let's all take the pledge!. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | O.K., young man, get going!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | We'll be o.k. if the fuel holds out!. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "O.k." is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 62.74% of the time. "O.k." is used about 212 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 62.74% | 133 | 27,614 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.11% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.68% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (common) | 0.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 212 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "o.k.": be o.k. ♦ everything's o.k.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "o.k."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | top (agreed, OK, okay). (various references) | |
Chinese | 好。. (various references) | |
French | très bien, tout va bien, tout marche bien, donner son accord, d'accord, bien, approuver, approuvé, approber, ça va. (various references) | |
German | okay (okay, right you are), ok (good enough, okay), zustimmung (accordance, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, assentation, compliance, consent, indulgence, okay, sanction), in ordnung (agreed, all right, alright, decent, groovy, it was nothing, okay, spick and span, to remedy), gut (all right, belongings, beneficial, capable, domain, efficiently, estate, farm, fine, freight, gear, good, goods, handsomely, holding, item, keen, manor, material, nice, nicely, okay, possession, property, quiet, ranch, rigging, safely, sharp, solid, that's good, understood, well). (various references) | |
Guarani | ipôrama (it is already o.k.). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בס"ר (all right, alright, okay). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rendben van (alright, nuff said, nuff sed, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, to be in good trim, to be in order), rendben (in good order, in order, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, ship-shape), jóváhagy (affirm, approbate, approve, assent, confirm, endorse, indorse, ok, okay, okey, ratify, sanction, to approve, to approve of, to assent, to consent, to endorse, to indorse, to o.k., to ratify, to uphold, to validate, upheld, uphold), helyes (appropriate, apt, compt, correct, fitting, legitimate, nice, nice-looking, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, Ortho, pertinent, proper, quite so, right, Roger, seemly, true, well), helybenhagy (ok, okay, okey, to affirm, to approve, to belabor, to belabour, to O.K., uphold). (various references) | |
Italian | vabene (ok, okay), tutto bene (ok, okay), ebbene (now, ok, okay, well), bene (all right, aright, asset, cool, fine, gift, good, OK, okay, possession, properly, really, right, very, well, wide). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 調 (all right, doing well, favourable), 調 (all right, doing well, favourable), 大丈夫 (all right, safe), オー の法則 (all guarantee, all or nothing, all right, all square, all-in-one, all-occasion dress, all-season coat, all-season dress, all-season track, allspice, all-star cast, all-star game, all-wave, all-weather coat, all-weather track, alternative, alternative school, alternative space, aura, aural communication, oar, Ohm's law, oldie, oldies, omen, oral, oral approach, oral method, oral sex). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | オーライ (all right), じゅ"ちょう (all right, doing well, favourable), いじょうぶ (all right, safe). (various references) | |
Korean | 승인하십시".. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | ok. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | o.k.ay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | okay (ok, okay, okey, okeydokey), ok (ok, okay, okey, okeydokey), expressão de aprovação (ok, okay, okey, okeydokey), correto (accurate, all right, anchored, clean-fingered, correct, genteel, gentlemanlike, incorrupt, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, proper, seemly, sportsmanlike, sporty, true), certo (absolute, accurate, all right, assured, certain, clean-cut, clock-work, confident, correct, exact, fit, insurant, jumped-up, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, precise, precision, reliable, secure, such, sure, true, well-defined), bom (decent, fair, fine, fit, good, healthy, meritorious, nice, nice guy, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, praiseworthy, rattling), APROVE., aprovar (acclaim, accredit, allow, applaud, approbate, approve, clap, endorse, find, indorse, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, ratify, sanction), aprovado (accredited, canonic, canonical, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey). (various references) | |
Romanian | foarte bine (allright, good enough, okay). (various references) | |
Russian | окей (okay). (various references) | |
Spanish | vale (agreed, chit, coupon, hello, it is worth, it is worthwhile, ok, okay, okey, paybill, right-ho, scrip, stet, token, voucher). (various references) | |
Swedish | okej (done, ok, okay, okeydokey), okay (done, ok, okay, okeydokey), ok (done, ok, okay, okeydokey, yoke), rätt (aright, authority, bang, claim, correct, course, dish, fair, fairly, full, jolly, justice, law, law court, ok, okay, okeydokey, pretty, proper, quite, rather, right, right hand, righteousness, right-hand, rightly, straight, the right, tribunal, true, warrant), i sin ordning (in order, ok, okay, okeydokey), godkänna (accredit, admit, adopt, allow, approve, approve of, authorize, endorse, indorse, ok, okay, pass a test, sanction), gillande (approbation, approval, assent, Favor, favour, in favor of, in favour of, ok, okay, okey, plaudit), gärna det (all right, ok, okay, okey), bra (all right, bonny, fine, funky, good, great, jolly, longish, nice, not badly, ok, okay, okeydokey, quite, right, useful, very, very much, well). (various references) | |
Thai | ใช้ไ"้ (okay). (various references) | |
Turkish | onaylamak (accept, acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, authorise, authorize, be recognizant of, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, endorse, give countenance to, grant, hear, hold with, homologate, indorse, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lend countenance to, ok, okay, ratify, recognize, sanction, smile on, stamp, subscribe, sustain, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vouch, witness), onay (acknowledgement, affirmation, approbation, approval, assent, backing, certification, confirmation, endorsement, indorsement, legitimation, ok, okay, ratification, sanction, visa, vise), olur (agreed, all right, alright, can do, it'll be, ok, okay, yes), oldu (agreed, deal, done, ok, okay), okeylemek (ok, okay), okey (ok, okay), tamam (according to hoyle, agreed, all right, alright, complete, done, exactly, finished, it's a deal, mature, OK, okay, precisely, righto, rightoh, roger, yeah), peki (all right, alright, good, ok, okay, very well, well), makbul (acceptable, accepted, agreeable, far out, grateful, ok, okay, palatable), kabul (acceptance, acceptation, acknowledgement, admission, admittance, agreed, approval, assent, concession, done, drawing room, it's a bargain, placet, receiving, reception, recognition, thumbs up), iyi (agreeable, all right, alright, b, comfortable, decent, decently, fair, fine, good, gratifying, great, happy, just, kind, ok, okay, sound, well, well enough), idare eder (good deal, ok, okay, so so). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схвалювати (approbate, approve, countenance, ok, okay, okey, sanction, smile, welcome), схвалення (acceptance, accolade, allowance, applause, approbation, approof, approval, backing, ok, okay, okey), санкція (approbation, approof, approval, assent, imprimatur, ok, okay, okey, sanction), слухаю (ok, okay, okey, okeydokey), справний (ok, okay, okey, serviceable, taut), гаразд (alright, done, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, so), все в порядку (ok, okay, okey), згода (accedence, accord, accordance, adhesion, agreement, approbation, approval, arrangement, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concordance, consensus, consent, consonance, entente, fiat, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, oneness, suit, understanding, yea, yes), затверджувати (appoint, approbate, approve, certify, ok, okay, okey, ratify, validate), підхожий (acceptable, adapted, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, befitting, canny, eligible, feasible, fit, fitting, good, likely, meet, ok, okay, okey, opportune, proper, qualified, suitable), правильно (accurately, alright, aright, correctly, duly, normally, ok, okay, okey, properly, regular, regularly, right, right on, rightly, straight, that's right), прийнятний (acceptable, acceptive, admissible, adoptable, eligible, entertainable, ok, okay, okey, receivable, supportable), дозвіл (allowance, assent, authorization, consent, leave, leaving, ok, okay, okey, order, permission, permit, permittance, warranty), добре (all right, decently, familiarly, good, nicely, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, right-ho, smoothly, well), давати згоду (agree, ok, okay, okey, say yes). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tốt (all right, decently, famously, feracious, fertile, fine, hunky, splendid), sự tán th nh (acceptance, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, endorsement, espousal, fiat, imprimatur, indorsation, indorsement), sự đ"ng ý (accord, accordance, acquiescence, adhesion, agreement, approbation, approval, concurrence, consent, imprimatur), được (about, all right, serene, yes, yeses). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters ".-.-k-o" | |
-2 letters: ko. | |
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