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acceptable
adjective as in satisfactory, agreeable
Strongest matches
adequate, common, decent, fair, respectable, sufficient, tolerable
Weak matches
A-OK, admissible, all right, average, big, cooking with gas, cool, copacetic, delightful, hep, hip, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher, large, okay, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, right on, standard, swell, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome
Example Sentences
The deals can yield acceptable returns because most companies’ earnings are growing.
Earlier this year, Moscow made it clear this was no longer acceptable – and President Vucic imposed an export embargo.
“Truth and reconciliation” aims to make it no longer socially acceptable or personally necessary to lie about events everyone knows took place.
Members of the Unite union have demanded the company makes a "further revised offer that is acceptable to staff in the midst of the current cost-of-living crisis".
It was asked to revise them in February last year to reflect the new rankings of what levels of rockfall risk would be considered acceptable.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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