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acceptable

adj
/əkˈsɛp.tə.bəl/

Etymology

From Middle English acceptable, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French acceptable, from Late Latin acceptābilis (“worthy of acceptance”). Morphologically accept + -able.

  1. derived from acceptābilis — “worthy of acceptance”
  2. derived from acceptable
  3. inherited from acceptable

Definitions

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

    • 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.

  2. Barely worthy, less than excellent

    Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.

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

  3. Someone or something that is acceptable.

    • 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 neighborhood

Derived

acceptableness, acceptably, inacceptably, nonacceptable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at acceptable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01acceptable02received03accepted04recognized05honored06honoured07respected08honor09recognition10valid

A definitional loop anchored at acceptable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at acceptable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA