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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

inacceptable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From in- + acceptable.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Unacceptable.
    • And there is ſuch an antipathy betwixt our nature and Purgations, that the very ſmell of them is inacceptable; […] 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of the faculties of Medicaments, and how many sorts there be accordingly”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, book I ([…]), page 10:

Forms

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more inacceptable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most inacceptable Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

acceptable

Synonyms

unacceptable