Antonyms of adj unacceptable

4 senses of unacceptable

Sense 1
unacceptable -- (not adequate to give satisfaction; "the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable")

INDIRECT (VIA unsatisfactory) -> satisfactory -- (giving satisfaction; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory")

Sense 2
unacceptable (vs. acceptable) -- (not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom")

acceptable (vs. unacceptable) -- (worthy of acceptance or satisfactory; "acceptable levels of radiation"; "performances varied from acceptable to excellent")
        => bankable -- (acceptable to or at a bank; "bankable funds")
        => unexceptionable, unimpeachable -- (completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach; "two unexceptionable witnesses"; "a judge's ethics should be unexceptionable")
        => unobjectionable -- (not objectionable; "the ends are unobjectionable; it's the means that one can't accept")

Sense 3
impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferable -- (used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence")

INDIRECT (VIA intolerable) -> tolerable -- (capable of being borne or endured; "the climate is at least tolerable")

Sense 4
unacceptable, unaccepted -- (not conforming to standard usage; "the following use of `access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; `You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'")

INDIRECT (VIA nonstandard) -> standard, received -- (conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British))

Similarity of adj unacceptable

4 senses of unacceptable

Sense 1
unacceptable -- (not adequate to give satisfaction; "the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable")
       => unsatisfactory (vs. satisfactory) -- (not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory")

Sense 2
unacceptable (vs. acceptable) -- (not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom")
       => exceptionable, objectionable -- (liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to; "a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing"; "found the politician's views objectionable")
          Also See-> unsatisfactory#1; unwelcome#1

Sense 3
impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferable -- (used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence")
       => intolerable (vs. tolerable), unbearable, unendurable -- (incapable of being put up with; "an intolerable degree of sentimentality")

Sense 4
unacceptable, unaccepted -- (not conforming to standard usage; "the following use of `access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; `You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'")
       => nonstandard (vs. standard) -- (not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; "a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups"; "the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech"- A.R.Dunlap)

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