acceptable
capable or worthy of being accepted.
pleasing to the receiver; satisfactory; agreeable; welcome.
meeting only minimum requirements; barely adequate: an acceptable performance.
capable of being endured; tolerable; bearable: acceptable levels of radiation.
Origin of acceptable
1Other words from acceptable
- ac·cept·a·bil·i·ty, ac·cept·a·ble·ness, noun
- ac·cept·a·bly, adverb
- un·ac·cept·a·bil·i·ty, noun
- un·ac·cept·a·ble, adjective
- un·ac·cept·a·ble·ness, noun
- un·ac·cept·a·bly, adverb
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How to use acceptable in a sentence
The idea of challenge trials has gained momentum as the pathogen has spread around the world, sparking a debate over what kind of sacrifice is acceptable and the benefits the tests could bring.
To jumpstart the COVID vaccine race, the U.K. considers ‘challenge trials’ exposing people to the virus | Bernhard Warner | September 24, 2020 | FortuneI know people are frustrated and they have a right to peacefully protest, but violence is never acceptable.
Democrats decry Kentucky AG decision on Breonna Taylor as an example of systemic injustice | Chelsea Janes | September 24, 2020 | Washington PostIf data collection ends before 99% completeness is met in every state, the Bureau will not achieve what it views as an acceptable level of accuracy and completeness.
The Census is due in a week. What happens if it’s incomplete? | Aric Jenkins | September 23, 2020 | FortuneSocial change, the justice argued, began at the state level and that’s what made it broadly acceptable.
This association existed at all levels of HAPs exposure, including levels that the EPA deems acceptable.
New Research Shows Disproportionate Rate of Coronavirus Deaths in Polluted Areas | by Lylla Younes, ProPublica, and Sara Sneath | September 11, 2020 | ProPublica
The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
Anger often manifests in withholders as another self-destructive but more socially acceptable feeling or behavior, like anxiety.
Yet according to Hamilton, “it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable.”
How does the world owe you a private car, priced as you deem acceptable, that didn't exist five years ago?
In Defense of Uber’s Awful Sydney Surge Pricing | Olivia Nuzzi | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo be fair, Ma provided the only safe answer to that question, if “safe” means acceptable to the Chinese Communist Party.
There wanted but a month to the acceptable season when claims upon the house poured in which could not be put off.
Divine Providence is about to place independence within our reach, in a manner most acceptable to a free and independent people.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanThere is no exercise that would be acceptable to God, that should not come within the range of a promise made in such a service.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamThe saints of God alone can render acceptable obedience; but all are commanded to obey.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John CunninghamUnder these circumstances, Louis was compelled to dismiss his ministry and to call in another more acceptable to the people.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for acceptable
/ (əkˈsɛptəbəl) /
satisfactory; adequate
pleasing; welcome
tolerable
Derived forms of acceptable
- acceptability or acceptableness, noun
- acceptably, adverb
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