adjective
- Not adequate to give satisfaction.
- usage: "the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable"
- Not acceptable; not welcome.
- usage: "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom"
- Used of persons or their behavior.
- usage: "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence"
- synonyms: impossible, insufferable, unsufferable
- Not conforming to standard usage.
- usage: "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: unaccepted
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