okaying

The word “okaying” has 3 syllables: o-kay-ing

It's pronounced as /ˌoʊˈkeɪ.ɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for okaying?

In the thesaurus, “okaying” has 55 synonyms and 42 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for okaying along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for okaying

Antonyms for okaying

  • banning
  • blacklisting
  • censuring
  • condemning
  • criticizing
  • damning
  • declining
  • denouncing
  • denying
  • deprecating
  • depreciating
  • detesting
  • disallowing
  • disapproving
  • discountenancing
  • disfavoring
  • disliking
  • disparaging
  • disregarding
  • enjoining
  • forbidding
  • hating
  • ignoring
  • illegalizing
  • interdicting
  • loathing
  • minding
  • negativing
  • neglecting
  • opposing
  • overlooking
  • prohibiting
  • proscribing
  • rebuffing
  • rebutting
  • refusing
  • rejecting
  • reprehending
  • reprobating
  • spurning
  • turning down
  • vetoing

Meanings of okaying

  • verb
    1. To approve.
    2. To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

Example Sentences

  • The manager is okaying the final design now.
  • She was okaying all the requests without much review.
  • He hesitated before okaying the budget proposal.
  • They are okaying the event schedule today.
  • The supervisor is okaying our leave applications.

On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to okaying, such as: accepting, acclaiming, accrediting, acknowledging, affirming, allowing, applauding.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

qualifying

  • accrediting
  • accustoming
  • adapting
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  • affirming
  • allowing
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  • approving
  • authorizing
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  • whitewashing

sanctioning

  • acceptance
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  • accord
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  • acknowledging
  • admission
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • agreement
  • allowing
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  • approval
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  • tolerating
  • validating
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  • visa
  • warrant
  • warranting
  • witness

taking

  • Junoesque
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  • accrediting
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  • tolerating
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  • toughing it out
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  • transferable
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  • trusting
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  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • wasting
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  • weakening
  • wearing
  • welcoming
  • well-favored
  • whacking
  • whipping
  • wilting
  • winning
  • winsome
  • withering
  • working
  • worsening
  • worsting
  • zingy

taking kindly to

accepting

  • abiding
  • abject
  • absorbing
  • acceding
  • acceptance
  • acceptive
  • acclaiming
  • accord
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • admiring
  • admission
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adoption
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • advisory
  • advocating
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • allowing
  • altering
  • amenable
  • applauding
  • applying
  • appreciative
  • approbatory
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • approving
  • arrogation
  • artless
  • assent
  • assenting
  • assuming
  • assurance
  • attending
  • attentive
  • attestation
  • authenticating
  • authentication
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • avowal
  • backing
  • bearing
  • becoming
  • belief
  • believing
  • biding
  • bleak
  • blue
  • born yesterday
  • bringing in
  • brokenhearted
  • brooking
  • buying
  • capitulating
  • certain
  • certainty
  • championing
  • cheerless
  • childlike
  • collecting
  • comfortless
  • commendatory
  • commending
  • compliance
  • complimentary
  • concentrating
  • concluding
  • confidence
  • confident
  • confiding
  • confirming
  • conjecture
  • consent
  • consenting
  • convinced
  • cooperation
  • corroborating
  • corroboration
  • countenancing
  • credit
  • crediting
  • credulous
  • crestfallen
  • cynical
  • dark
  • deducing
  • dejected
  • demonstration
  • dependence
  • dependent
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • disappointed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • down
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drawing
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dupable
  • earning
  • easy mark
  • embracing
  • employing
  • encomiastic
  • endorsement
  • endorsing
  • enduring
  • enjoying
  • espousing
  • eulogistic
  • evidence
  • expectation
  • faith
  • falling for
  • fancy
  • favorable
  • favoring
  • flattering
  • forlorn
  • friendly
  • funereal
  • gaining
  • gathering
  • getting
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • go ahead
  • going
  • going for
  • good
  • grab
  • green
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  • grieving
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  • guileless
  • gullable
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  • hacking
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  • handling
  • hangdog
  • having
  • having faith
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  • heartbroken
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  • naive
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • okay
  • okaying
  • open
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  • overconfident
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  • passage
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  • paying attention
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  • permitting
  • pessimistic
  • pocketing
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  • practicing
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  • presuming
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  • presupposition
  • proof
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  • ratifying
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  • receipt
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  • reception
  • recognition
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  • reliance
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  • respectful
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  • sad
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  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • secure
  • securing
  • seizure
  • setting store by
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  • shot
  • shot in the dark
  • shouldering
  • simple
  • sneaking suspicion
  • sorrowful
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  • stab
  • stamp of approval
  • standing
  • standing by
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  • sticking out
  • stock
  • stomaching
  • store
  • submitting to
  • substantiation
  • succumbing
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  • support
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  • supposing
  • supposition
  • sure
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  • swallow whole
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • sympathetic
  • taken in
  • takeover
  • taking
  • taking kindly to
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • taking up
  • testament
  • testimonial
  • testimony
  • testing
  • theorization
  • theory
  • thesis
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncritical
  • understanding
  • undertaking
  • undoubting
  • unhappy
  • unquestioning
  • unsophisticated
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  • upholding
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  • validating
  • verification
  • verifying
  • visa
  • wailing
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  • warrant
  • warranting
  • wearing
  • weeping
  • welcoming
  • witness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • working
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wretched
  • yes

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