From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
okay
adj : 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" [syn: all right, fine, ok, o.k.,
hunky-dory]
n : an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead" [syn:
O.K., OK, okey, okeh]
adv : 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') [syn: O.K.,
all right, alright]
v : give sanction to; "I approve of his educational policies"
[syn: approve, O.K., sanction] [ant: disapprove]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
okay \okay\ adj.
Satifactory; agreeable; pleasant; as, things are okay; he's
an okay guy.
Syn: all right(predicate), all-right(prenominal), ok, o.k.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
okay \okay\ n.
An endorsement; approval; permission; as, they gave us the
okay to go ahead.
Syn: OK, okey, okeh.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
okay \okay\ v. t.
to approve; as, the boss okayed my proposal.
Syn: approve, ok, sanction.
[WordNet 1.5]