- adequate
- common
- decent
- fair
- respectable
- sufficient
- tolerable
- A-OK
- admissible
- all right
- average
- big
- cooking with gas
- cool
- copacetic
- delightful
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- in the swim
- kosher
- large
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- on the ball
- on the beam
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- peachy keen
- pleasant
- pleasing
- right on
- standard
- swell
- trendy
- unexceptional
- unobjectionable
- up to code
- up to snuff
- welcome
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO ACCEPTABLE
- acceptable
- all right
- capable
- comfortable
- commensurate
- competent
- decent
- equal
- fair
- passable
- requisite
- satisfactory
- sufficient
- sufficing
- suitable
- tolerable
- unexceptional
- unobjectionable
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- fitting
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- licit
- likely
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- not impossible
- not unlikely
- okay
- passable
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- pertinent
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- probable
- proper
- rational
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- relevant
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- tolerable
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- warranted
- worthy
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- dandy
- delicious
- delightful
- enjoyable
- fair
- fine
- gratifying
- hunky-dory
- mild
- nice
- peach
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- pleasant
- pleasurable
- pleasureful
- ready
- satisfying
- spiffy
- swell
- to one’s liking
- to one’s taste
- welcome
- acceptable
- adequate
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- good
- hunky-dory
- okay
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- unobjectionable
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- allowable
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- sufferable
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acceptance, accept, accepting, accepted, acceptability, acceptation, acceptably, acceptive, accepter
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adequate, affable, allowable, appreciable, bearable, en.synonym.one, believable, beneficial, competent, convincing, credible, desirable, endurable, enjoyable, enough, excusable, expedient, fair, favourable, fit, good, grateful, helpful, inhabitable, livable, mediocre, en.synonym.one, middling, obliging, ordinary, passable, plausible, pleasant, possible, presentable, probable, profitable, rational, reasonable, satisfactory, sufferable, sufficient, suitable, supportable, tolerable, trustworthy, useful, welcome.
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1 agreeable, delightful, grateful, gratifying, pleasant, pleasing, welcome
2 adequate, admissible, all right, fair, moderate, passable, satisfactory, so-so (informal) standard, tolerable, up to scratch (informal)
Antonyms
unacceptable, unsatisfactory, unsuitable
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acceptable
1 adj Acceptable activities and situations are those that most people approve of or consider to be normal., (Antonym: unacceptable)
It is becoming more acceptable for women to drink alcohol…, The air pollution exceeds most acceptable levels by 10 times or more.
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acceptability n-uncount usu N of n
…an increase in the social acceptability of divorce.
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acceptably adv
The aim of discipline is to teach children to behave acceptably.
2 adj If something is acceptableto someone, they agree to consider it, use it, or allow it to happen.
oft ADJ to n (Antonym: unacceptable)
They have thrashed out a compromise formula acceptable to Moscow…, They recently failed to negotiate a mutually acceptable new contract.
3 adj If you describe something as acceptable, you mean that it is good enough or fairly good.
On the far side of the street was a restaurant that looked acceptable…
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acceptably adv ADV adj, ADV with v
…a method that provides an acceptably accurate solution to a problem…
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Definition of acceptable
as in adequate
of a level of quality that meets one’s needs or standards
told the bike rental man that a ten-speed with four broken gears was not acceptable
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