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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
When he first suggested that black people are less intelligent, London's Science Museum cancelled a planned lecture - insisting Watson's views went "beyond the point of acceptable debate".
It’s an acceptable drug that is actually causing damage in our brain.
“You’d need approximately $1 trillion in revenue to hit break even, and many trillions more to earn an acceptable return on this spend,” he says.
That gives YouTube a longer leash to hold out for contract terms it finds acceptable.
Asked whether it would be acceptable to break this promise, Powell told the BBC: "We should be following through on our manifesto, of course. There's no question about that."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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