acceptable
/əkˈsɛp.tə.bəl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.27 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; welcome; gratifying; pleasing to a receiver.
noun
Someone or something that is acceptable.
Example Sentences
- "We need to find an acceptable present for Jeff."
- "'[…] The other day, as soon as we came to town, aware that money could not be very plenty with us just now, she put bank-notes into Fanny's hands to the amount of two hundred pounds. And extremely acceptable it is, for we must live at a great expense while we are here.'"
- "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."
- "The designs were acceptable, but they were nothing special either."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English acceptable, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French acceptable, from Late Latin acceptābilis (“worthy of acceptance”). Morphologically accept + -able.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more acceptable (comparative)
most acceptable (superlative)
acceptible (alternative, obsolete)
acceptables (plural)