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UNACCEPTABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not acceptable; not welcome
Example:
an unacceptable violation of personal freedom
Classified under:
Similar:
exceptionable; objectionable (liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to)
Also:
unsatisfactory (not giving satisfaction)
unwelcome (not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure)
Antonym:
acceptable (worthy of acceptance or satisfactory)
Derivation:
unacceptability; unacceptableness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not adequate to give satisfaction
Example:
the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable
Classified under:
Similar:
unsatisfactory (not giving satisfaction)
Derivation:
unacceptableness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not conforming to standard usage
Example:
the following use of 'access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; 'You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
nonstandard (not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Derivation:
unacceptableness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable
Example:
impossible behavior
Synonyms:
impossible; unacceptable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intolerable; unbearable; unendurable (incapable of being tolerated or endured)
Derivation:
unacceptability; unacceptableness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards)
Context examples:
If the administered T cells lead to unacceptable side effects, the chemical homodimerizer AP1903 can be administered, which binds to the drug binding FKBP12-F36V domain and activates caspase 9, resulting in the apoptosis of the administered T-cells.
(iC9-GD2-CD28-OX40-expressing T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
Therefore, since my acquaintance were pleased to think my poor endeavours might not be unacceptable to my country, I imposed on myself, as a maxim never to be swerved from, that I would strictly adhere to truth; neither indeed can I be ever under the least temptation to vary from it, while I retain in my mind the lectures and example of my noble master and the other illustrious Houyhnhnms of whom I had so long the honour to be an humble hearer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
