Acceptable

/əkˈsɛp.tə.bəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure..

Definitions by Sense

1. Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure.
2. Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
3. Someone or something that is acceptable.

Example Sentences

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.

The designs were acceptable, but they were nothing special either.

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.

The good old acceptables are called “character” actors. An actor of the versatile order is called, casually, even contemptuously, a “character” actor.

Close to 3 percent of the acceptables are free of DMF teeth while none of the rejectables have fewer than 7 DMF teeth.

The church will not be content to see that older persons are housed and entertained, or even that acceptables are worked out to provide them with therapy and income from jobs.

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Word Forms

• more acceptable
• most acceptable
• acceptible
• acceptables

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