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Copacetic: Variant(s): also co·pa·set·ic or co·pe·set·ic /
"kO-p&-'se-tik/
Function: adjective
Etymology: origin unknown
Definition: "very satisfactory"

Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary online.

World Wide Words: "Fine, excellent, going just right." It’s possible that this word has created more column inches of speculation in the USA than any other apart from OK. It’s rare to the point of invisibility outside North America. People mostly become aware of it in the sixties as a result of the US space program—it’s very much a Right Stuff kind of word.
   "A ...frequent explanation is that it derives from one of two Hebrew expressions, hakol b’seder, “all is in order”, or kol b’tzedek, “all with justice”, which it is suggested were introduced into the USA by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants. Yet other accounts say it derives from a Chinook word copasenee, “everything is satisfactory”, once used on the waterways of Washington State, or from the French coupersetique, from couper, “to strike”, or from the French phrase copain(s) c’est épatant! (“buddy(s), that’s great!”).
                                    [Michael Quinion, World Wide Words,
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-cop1.htm]

Kopes-etic: Relating to the distinctly skeptical, forward-looking, optimistic, innovative, and mildly revolutionary perspective on health care of Colin Kopes-Kerr, MD, JD, MPH

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