Acceptable Definition

ăk-sĕptə-bəl
adjective
Adequate to satisfy a need, requirement, or standard; satisfactory.
An acceptable excuse; acceptable behavior.
American Heritage
Worth accepting; satisfactory or, sometimes, merely adequate.
Webster's New World
Satisfactory but not superior; passable.
The restaurant was acceptable but did not live up to its reputation.
American Heritage
Tolerable; bearable.
Webster's New World

Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.

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Origin of Acceptable

  • From Old French acceptable, from Latin acceptabilis (“worthy of acceptance”).

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  • First attested in the late 14th century.

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Acceptable Sentence Examples

  • She had continued her classes and was somehow maintaining acceptable grades.

  • The twins were healthy and acceptable weight, so they released Katie.

  • A conference held at Constantinople sanctioned the union on terms which were rendered acceptable to the sultan; but Said Pasha, who had assisted the sultan in centralizing at Yildiz Kiosk the administration of the country, and who had become grand vizier, was a strong adherent of the policy of armed intervention by Turkey, and the consequence was his fall from office.

  • The kingless state may therefore have arisen out of kingship through divisions of the royal power or through failure on the part of the leading men to agree on a head acceptable to all.

  • On what planet is that acceptable?

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ELEBLE

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