Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Adequate to satisfy a need, requirement, or standard; satisfactory: synonym: sufficient.
- adjective Satisfactory but not superior; passable: synonym: average.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; hence, pleasing to the receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome: as, an acceptable present.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Capable ,worthy , or sure of being accepted or received withpleasure ; pleasing to areceiver ;gratifying ; agreeable;welcome ; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. - adjective Barely worthy, less than excellent;
passable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective adequate for the purpose
- adjective judged to be in conformity with approved usage
- adjective meeting requirements
- adjective worthy of acceptance or satisfactory
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Examples
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My use of the term acceptable refered to what was acceptable to the boy.
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, The Rape/Consent Spectrum, And Restorative Justice 2006
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My use of the term acceptable refered to what was acceptable to the boy.
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, The Rape/Consent Spectrum, And Restorative Justice 2006
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And these cars did well in the front and side tests and had what they call acceptable rear impact ratings.
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Why it was called "Dawn" I am not now quite clear, but I think it was because I could find no other title acceptable to the publishers.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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As Jonathan Stagge, the boys just didn't seem to be able to come up with a title acceptable to their British publishers.
In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864
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So my question is: Was this term acceptable in 1989 or can its use be chalked up to the fact that Dick Maibaum was 79 years old when he wrote the script?
CommanderBond.net 2010
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There's no guarantee that people will like five percent of what you do, but the only way you can get to a point where that's acceptable is if you're one hundred percent proud of it.
Mike Ragogna: New Tunes On Monday: Conversations with Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins plus Pete Yorn Mike Ragogna 2010
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There's no guarantee that people will like five percent of what you do, but the only way you can get to a point where that's acceptable is if you're one hundred percent proud of it.
Mike Ragogna: New Tunes On Monday: Conversations with Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins plus Pete Yorn Mike Ragogna 2010
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Still, he appeared to be in acceptable condition during Senior Bowl practices.
Peak performers: O-line likely to produce bumper draft class again 2009
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You are indeed acting like your forefathers in NOT recognizing that what USED to work and be acceptable is no longer.
jiyoungchoi92 commented on the word acceptable
The company's proposal was acceptable and was a good deal to us, so we accepted their proposal.
March 13, 2007
jeen0809 commented on the word acceptable
The registrar accepted more applicants than he should have.
March 14, 2007