Usually means: Not meeting required standards, inappropriate.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word Unacceptable:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. unacceptable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unacceptable: Merriam-Webster
  3. unacceptable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unacceptable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unacceptable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unacceptable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unacceptable, unacceptable: Wordnik
  8. unacceptable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unacceptable: Wiktionary
  10. unacceptable: Dictionary.com
  11. unacceptable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. unacceptable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Unacceptable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. unacceptable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. unacceptable: Rhymezone
  16. Unacceptable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. unacceptable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. unacceptable: FreeDictionary.org
  19. unacceptable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. unacceptable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unacceptable: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unacceptable: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unacceptable)

▸ adjective:  Unsatisfactory; not acceptable.
▸ adjective:  (linguistics) Not conforming to accepted usage.
▸ noun:  Something that is not acceptable.

Similar:
intolerable, unsufferable, insufferable, unaccepted, impossible, unsatisfactory, nonstandard, exceptionable, objectionable, nonacceptable, more...

Opposite:
acceptable, satisfactory, adequate, appropriate, commendable

Types:
deplorable, intolerable, unconscionable, inadmissible, more...

Phrases:
find unacceptable, socially unacceptable, unacceptable options, to send back as unacceptable, more...

Colors:
    dark gray,     dull brown,     muddy green,     sickly yellow,     faded orange, more...


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Similar:
intolerable, unsufferable, insufferable, unaccepted, impossible, unsatisfactory, nonstandard, exceptionable, objectionable, nonacceptable, more...

Opposite:
acceptable, satisfactory, adequate, appropriate, commendable

Types:
deplorable, intolerable, unconscionable, inadmissible, more...

Phrases:
find unacceptable, socially unacceptable, unacceptable options, to send back as unacceptable, more...

Colors:
    dark gray,     dull brown,     muddy green,     sickly yellow,     faded orange, more...



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