Explore Acceptable through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like good or received. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Acceptable in a sentence
Acceptable meaning
- Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure.
- Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
Synonyms of Acceptable
Using Acceptable
- The main meaning on this page is: Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure. | Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
- Useful related words include: satisfactory, good, received, standard.
- In the example corpus, acceptable often appears in combinations such as: is acceptable, acceptable to, an acceptable.
Example sentences (20)
He added: “If mandatory safety measures are acceptable for car drivers they should surely be acceptable for cyclists.
Mr Whelan said that because inflation had "gone through the roof" since Aslef first sought an offer, what was acceptable six months ago "may not be acceptable to our members now".
What was acceptable 10-20 years ago may not be acceptable now," she said.
Donald Trump has made explicit xenophobia acceptable, and explicit racism acceptable.
If it is acceptable for design and heritage issues to have artificial stone on Morrisons inside the conservation area then these materials must be acceptable outside the conservation area.
As Ari Fuld’s life and his tragic death makes clear, peace will not be possible until the idea of Jews living in Judea is as acceptable to the Arabs as the idea of Arabs living in Haifa is acceptable to Jews.
Conditionality has also been criticised because a country can pledge collateral of "acceptable assets" to obtain waivers—if one assumes that all countries are able to provide "acceptable collateral".
Finally, the acceptable positions are those indicated by an odd number, yielding the acceptable hyphenations en-cy-clo-pe-di-a.
Here themself might be acceptable to some, themselves seems less acceptable, and himself is unacceptable.
In a few Western countries female toplessness at a beach is acceptable, although it may not be acceptable in the town center.
A 25% percent tip on a $20 order is not acceptable for someone who drives his own car and covers the maintenance and fuel costs of the vehicle used to deliver the food to this client.
Acceptable dress standards for the blokes are a suit or blazer, tailored trouser pants, a collared dress shirt with a tie or bow tie and dress shoes.
According to him, although smoking cigarettes is socially acceptable in the society, it poses serious threat to public health, adding that with high taxes, many people will not be able to purchase and use the products.
According to Saketopoulou, queer people have always had to experiment outside of what is widely considered acceptable.
A council report, which said the pub proposal was acceptable, included comments from Network Rail which said it should not impact on the safe operation of an adjacent railway level crossing.
A few more USB ports would be appreciated but, at this price, the available options are acceptable.
Again, this is not to say that rioting is acceptable.
A June 2022 study by Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business revealed that most people find their own politician’s lies more acceptable than the other side’s.
All charting must be done to legally acceptable levels.
Although the clock is rapidly dwindling, Infantino seems slightly more optimistic about reaching what he sees as an acceptable deal for the broadcast rights to the upcoming Women’s World Cup in five key European countries.
Common combinations with acceptable
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is acceptable 29×
- acceptable to 26×
- an acceptable 20×
- not acceptable 19×
- be acceptable 13×
- acceptable for 9×
- acceptable and 9×
- acceptable in 9×
- socially acceptable 8×
- it acceptable 8×