FromMiddle Englishacceptable, fromOld Frenchacceptable, fromLate Latinacceptābilis(“worthy of acceptance”).
Morphologicallyaccept +-able.
- IPA(key): /əkˈsɛp.tə.bəl/,/ækˈsɛp.tə.bəl/,/ɪkˈsɛp.tə.bəl/
- (obsolete)IPA(key): /ˈæksɛp.tə.bəl/[1]
- Hyphenation:ac‧cep‧ti‧ble
acceptable (comparativemoreacceptable,superlativemostacceptable)
- Worthy,decent, sure of beingaccepted or received with at least moderatepleasure.
We need to find anacceptable present for Jeff.
1883, United States. War Department,Annual Reports of the War Department, volume 1, page128:I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employacceptable clergymen[…] then the needs might be met.
- Barely worthy, less than excellent;passable.
The designs wereacceptable, but they were nothing special either.
capable, worthy or sure of being accepted
- Armenian:ընդունելի (hy)(ənduneli)
- Azerbaijani:məqbul,qəbul edilə bilən,münasib
- Belarusian:прыма́льны m(prymálʹny)
- Bulgarian:приемлив (bg)(priemliv),допустим (bg)(dopustim)
- Catalan:acceptable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:可接受的(kě jiēshòu de)
- Cornish:kemeradow
- Czech:přijatelný (cs) m
- Dutch:aanvaardbaar (nl),acceptabel (nl)
- Esperanto:akceptebla,akceptinda
- Estonian:vastuvõetav
- Finnish:hyväksyttävä (fi)
- French:acceptable (fr) m orf,admissible (fr) m orf
- Galician:aceptable (gl)
- German:annehmbar (de),akzeptabel (de)
- Gothic:𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌴𐌼𐍃(andanēms)
- Greek:παραδεκτός (el)(paradektós),δεκτός (el)(dektós),αποδεκτός (el)(apodektós)
- Ancient:παραδεκτός(paradektós),ἀπόδεκτος(apódektos)
- Hindi:स्वीकार्य (hi)(svīkārya)
- Hungarian:elfogadható (hu)
- Icelandic:ásættanlegur (is)
- Interlingua:acceptabile
- Italian:accettabile (it)
- Latin:acceptus
- Malayalam:സ്വീകാര്യമായ(svīkāryamāya)
- Marathi:स्वीकार्य(svīkārya)
- Norwegian:antakelig
- Polish:akceptowalny (pl),dopuszczalny (pl)
- Portuguese:aceitável (pt)
- Romanian:acceptabil (ro)
- Russian:прие́млемый (ru)(prijémlemyj)
- Spanish:aceptable (es),asumible
- Swedish:acceptabel (sv),godtagbar (sv),tacknämlig (sv)
- Tagalog:katanggap-tanggap
- Telugu:అంగీకార యోగ్యమైన(aṅgīkāra yōgyamaina)
- Turkish:kabul edilebilir,uygun (tr),makbul (tr)
- Ukrainian:прийня́тний(pryjnjátnyj)
- Welsh:cymeradwy (cy),derbyniol (cy)
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acceptable (pluralacceptables)
- Someone or something that isacceptable.
- Antonym:rejectable
1922, Madhusūdan Kaul, “Introduction”, inSri Mālinīvijayottara Tantram (Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies; XXXVII), Bombay: […] “Tatva-vivechaka” Press,page xvii:The whole range of the knowable is divided into two classes, the acceptable and the avoidable. Theacceptables are: Śiva, Śakti, Vidyesa, Mantra, Mantreśvara and the Jivas.
c.1929–1930, Harry Alan Potamkin, “A Diet of Stars”, inLewis Jacobs, editor,The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin (Studies in Culture & Communication), New York, N.Y.; London:Teachers College Press, published1977,→ISBN, part 3 (Miscellany), section 9 (Other Writings),page565:The good oldacceptables are called “character” actors. An actor of the versatile order is called, casually, even contemptuously, a “character” actor.
1941 July 4, Henry Klein, “The Dental Status and Dental Needs of Young Adult Males, Rejectable or Acceptable for Military Service, According to Selective Service Dental Requirements”, inPublic Health Reports, volume56, number27, Washington, D.C.:United States Public Health Service,pages1373–1374:Close to 3 percent of theacceptables are free of DMF teeth while none of the rejectables have fewer than 7 DMF teeth.
1974 June 19, Ray Wells, “The Church and the Aging”, inThe Free Will Baptist, Ayden, N.C.,page 5, column 3:The church will not be content to see that older persons are housed and entertained, or even thatacceptables are worked out to provide them with therapy and income from jobs.
- “acceptable”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “acceptable”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “acceptable”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
Borrowed fromLatinacceptābilis.
acceptable m orf (masculine and feminine pluralacceptables)
- acceptable
- Antonym:inacceptable
- “acceptable”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “acceptable”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
- “acceptable” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “acceptable” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
acceptable
- definitesingular ofacceptabel
- plural ofacceptabel
Borrowed fromLatinacceptābilis.
acceptable (pluralacceptables)
- acceptable
- Antonym:inacceptable
acceptable
- definitenatural masculinesingular ofacceptabel
