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more acceptable

ADJECTIVE

satisfactory, agreeable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

adequate common decent fair respectable sufficient tolerable

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bad inadequate insufficient intolerable poor unrespectable unsuitable

WEAK

disagreeable disturbing unacceptable unsatisfactory unwelcome

Example Sentences

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This sort of dodge is more acceptable on television than it is on the big screen, which implicitly promises at least a partial wrap-up after almost two hours.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

If ever there was a moment to reset policy on some basis more acceptable to them, wouldn’t it be now?

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

So things are happening and it’s more acceptable to the general public.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

As such, they often carry two meanings, the first being more acceptable and broadly understood, while the other, problematic meaning is meant to only to be understood by the speaker's intended audience.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

If I had thought anything in writing the story, I had thought that perhaps it would make me more acceptable to them, and now it was cutting me off from them more completely than ever.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright