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

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
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  • depressed
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  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • disappointed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
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  • 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
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  • getting
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • go ahead
  • going
  • going for
  • good
  • grab
  • green
  • green light
  • grieving
  • growing
  • guess
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  • gullable
  • gullible
  • hacking
  • hagiographic
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  • handling
  • hangdog
  • having
  • having faith
  • hearkening
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
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  • heeding
  • holding with
  • hopeful
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  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • idolizing
  • inconsolable
  • indorsing
  • inference
  • inferring
  • inheriting
  • innocent
  • interested
  • joyless
  • kind
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • lauding
  • lenient
  • liking
  • living with
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • magnanimous
  • making
  • meeting
  • melancholy
  • merciful
  • miserable
  • mournful
  • naive
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • okay
  • okaying
  • open
  • open-minded
  • overconfident
  • overtrusting
  • panegyrical
  • passage
  • passing
  • paying attention
  • permission
  • permitting
  • pessimistic
  • pocketing
  • posit
  • positive
  • postulate
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  • practicing
  • praiseful
  • praising
  • premise
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  • presupposition
  • proof
  • proving
  • ratifying
  • reaccepting
  • reassuming
  • receipt
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  • reception
  • recognition
  • recommendatory
  • recommending
  • reliance
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  • resigned
  • respectful
  • respecting
  • sad
  • saddened
  • saluting
  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • secure
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  • seizure
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • shot
  • shot in the dark
  • shouldering
  • simple
  • sneaking suspicion
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stab
  • stamp of approval
  • standing
  • standing by
  • standing for
  • sticking out
  • stock
  • stomaching
  • store
  • submitting to
  • substantiation
  • succumbing
  • suffering
  • support
  • supporting
  • supportive
  • supposal
  • supposing
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  • sure
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  • suspicion
  • sustaining
  • swallow whole
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  • sympathetic
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  • testament
  • testimonial
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  • theorization
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  • thesis
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncritical
  • understanding
  • undertaking
  • undoubting
  • unhappy
  • unquestioning
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • upholding
  • usurpation
  • validating
  • verification
  • verifying
  • visa
  • wailing
  • warm
  • warrant
  • warranting
  • wearing
  • weeping
  • welcoming
  • witness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • working
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wretched
  • yes

accrediting

  • accepting
  • acclaiming
  • acknowledging
  • adulating
  • affirming
  • allowing
  • applauding
  • approbating
  • approving
  • ascribing
  • assigning
  • associating
  • attaching
  • attributing
  • authorizing
  • ballyhooing
  • belauding
  • blaming
  • blessing
  • bravoing
  • canonizing
  • celebrating
  • certifying
  • chalking up
  • charging
  • chartering
  • cheering
  • clapping
  • clearing
  • commending
  • commissioning
  • confirming
  • connecting
  • cracking up
  • credentialing
  • credentialling
  • crediting
  • deifying
  • emblazoning
  • empowering
  • enabling
  • endorsing
  • enfranchising
  • entitling
  • eulogizing
  • extolling
  • favoring
  • finalizing
  • flattering
  • formalizing
  • glorifying
  • hailing
  • homologating
  • idolizing
  • imputing
  • inaugurating
  • indorsing
  • inducting
  • initialing
  • initialling
  • initiating
  • installing
  • instating
  • investing
  • lauding
  • laying
  • legalizing
  • letting
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • linking
  • magnifying
  • okaying
  • overpraising
  • passing
  • permitting
  • praising
  • privileging
  • putting down
  • qualifying
  • ratifying
  • reapproving
  • recommending
  • referring
  • rubber-stamping
  • saluting
  • sanctifying
  • sanctioning
  • signing
  • singing
  • supporting
  • swearing in
  • touting
  • validating
  • vesting
  • warranting

qualifying

  • accrediting
  • accustoming
  • adapting
  • adjusting
  • affirming
  • allowing
  • altering
  • approving
  • authorizing
  • basic
  • bracketed
  • by the way
  • certificating
  • certifying
  • chartering
  • clearing
  • coloring
  • commissioning
  • compensating
  • compensatory
  • conditioning
  • condoning
  • confirming
  • credentialing
  • credentialling
  • diminishing
  • distorting
  • educating
  • elemental
  • elementary
  • empowering
  • enabling
  • endorsing
  • enfranchising
  • entitling
  • episodic
  • equipping
  • explanatory
  • exploratory
  • extenuating
  • extenuatory
  • extraneous
  • extrinsic
  • first
  • fitting
  • fundamental
  • grooming
  • habituating
  • in parenthesis
  • inaugurating
  • incidental
  • indoctrinating
  • indorsing
  • inducting
  • inductive
  • initiating
  • initiatory
  • inserted
  • installing
  • instating
  • instructing
  • intermediate
  • interposed
  • introductory
  • investing
  • justifying
  • legitimizing
  • lessening
  • letting
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • misrepresenting
  • misstating
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • narrowing
  • okaying
  • opening
  • palliating
  • permitting
  • perverting
  • pilot
  • preceding
  • precursory
  • prefatory
  • preparation
  • preparatory
  • preparing
  • primal
  • primary
  • prior
  • privileging
  • ratifying
  • reaccrediting
  • readying
  • reapproving
  • recertifying
  • rechartering
  • redemptive
  • reducing
  • related
  • revalidating
  • sanctioning
  • sanitizing
  • saving
  • schooling
  • seasoning
  • shaping
  • softening
  • subordinate
  • swearing in
  • tailoring
  • teaching
  • test
  • training
  • trial
  • tutoring
  • twisting
  • validating
  • varnishing
  • vesting
  • warping
  • warranting
  • whitewashing

ratifying

  • acceding
  • accepting
  • accession
  • accommodation
  • accord
  • accordance
  • accrediting
  • acknowledging
  • acquiescent
  • adjustment
  • affiliation
  • affinity
  • affirmatory
  • affirming
  • alliance
  • allowing
  • amity
  • approbating
  • approving
  • arbitration
  • arrangement
  • assenting
  • authorizing
  • bargaining
  • blessing
  • canonizing
  • certifying
  • clearing
  • compatibility
  • compliance
  • complying
  • compromise
  • concert
  • concession
  • concord
  • concordance
  • concurring
  • confirmative
  • confirmatory
  • confirming
  • conformity
  • congruity
  • consenting
  • consistency
  • correspondence
  • corroborative
  • enabling
  • endorsing
  • favorable
  • finalizing
  • formalizing
  • granting
  • harmony
  • homologating
  • indorsing
  • initialing
  • initialling
  • legalizing
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • mediation
  • okaying
  • passing
  • permitting
  • positive
  • reapproving
  • reconciliation
  • rubber-stamping
  • sanctifying
  • sanctioning
  • signing
  • similarity
  • suitableness
  • supporting
  • sympathy
  • understanding
  • union
  • unison
  • validating
  • verification
  • verifying
  • warranting

sanctioning

  • acceptance
  • accepting
  • accord
  • accrediting
  • acknowledging
  • admission
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • agreement
  • allowing
  • approbating
  • approval
  • approving
  • assent
  • attestation
  • authenticating
  • authentication
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • avowal
  • blessing
  • canonizing
  • certifying
  • clearance
  • clearing
  • confirming
  • consent
  • corroborating
  • corroboration
  • demonstration
  • enabling
  • enactment
  • endorsement
  • endorsing
  • establishment
  • evidence
  • facultative
  • finalizing
  • formalization
  • formalizing
  • founding
  • go ahead
  • granting
  • green light
  • homologating
  • indorsement
  • indorsing
  • initialing
  • initialling
  • institution
  • legalization
  • legalizing
  • legislation
  • legitimation
  • legitimization
  • lenient
  • letting
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • nod
  • okay
  • okaying
  • passage
  • passing
  • permission
  • permissive
  • permitting
  • proof
  • proving
  • ratification
  • ratifying
  • reapproving
  • recognition
  • rubber-stamping
  • sanctifying
  • sanction
  • signing
  • stamp of approval
  • substantiation
  • support
  • supporting
  • testament
  • testimonial
  • testimony
  • tolerating
  • validating
  • validation
  • verification
  • verifying
  • visa
  • warrant
  • warranting
  • witness

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