ACCEPTABLE Synonyms: 151 Similar and Opposite Words

acceptable

adjective

ik-ˈsep-tə-bəl

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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Recent Examples of acceptable That raises the prospect of officers going years without formal training specifically on the constitutional right, even as court decisions alter the bounds of acceptable conduct. —

Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025 According to physician Melinda Ring, director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the acceptable daily intake of Red No. 3 is a maximum of 0.1 milligram per kilogram of body weight per day. —

Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2025 Human screeners are hired to play with the AI and tell the AI what is acceptable to say versus what is forbidden to say. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025 Why would Schoen need to throw a Hail Mary when three wins is acceptable in New York? —

Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for acceptable

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That limit is adequate for the average or median case, but that leaves a lot of instances when a person’s liability exceeds the standard liability limit.

— Bob Carlson, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2025
This case began when a city in Oregon did not have adequate homeless shelters, leading to an overflow of homeless people on the streets.

— Leah Goodridge, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025