acceptable
//əkˈsɛp.tə.bəl//
Forms
- Comparative
- more acceptable
- Superlative
- most acceptable
- Plural
- acceptables
Definitions
1.Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure.
- We need to find an acceptable present for Jeff.
- I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.
- A site that carried [sexually explicit] material, but that gated it off from children through credit cards or other mechanisms to verify the age of the user, would have an acceptable defense under the act.
2.Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
- The designs were acceptable, but they were nothing special either.
1.Someone or something that is acceptable.
- Close to 3 percent of the acceptables are free of DMF teeth while none of the rejectables have fewer than 7 DMF teeth.
- The good old acceptables are called “character” actors. An actor of the versatile order is called, casually, even contemptuously, a “character” actor.
- The whole range of the knowable is divided into two classes, the acceptable and the avoidable. The acceptables are: Śiva, Śakti, Vidyesa, Mantra, Mantreśvara and the Jivas.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3504
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English acceptable, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French acceptable, from Late Latin acceptābilis (“worthy of acceptance”).
Morphologically accept + -able.