okay

[okay]

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
an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead"

Verb
give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"

Adjective S.
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

Adverb
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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Usage Examples

If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.

I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

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