Synonyms: unacceptable
Definition: not acceptable; not welcome
Usage: a word unacceptable in polite society; an unacceptable violation of personal freedom
Similar words: objectionable, exceptionable
Definition: liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to
Usage: a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing; found the politician's views objectionable
Synonyms: unacceptable
Definition: not adequate to give satisfaction
Usage: the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable
Similar words: unsatisfactory
Definition: not giving satisfaction
Usage: shops should take back unsatisfactory goods; her performance proved to be unsatisfactory; life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory; our discussion was very unsatisfactory
Synonyms: unacceptable, unaccepted
Definition: 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'
Similar words: nonstandard
Definition: not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community
Usage: a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups; the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech- A.R.Dunlap
Synonyms: unacceptable, insufferable, impossible, unsufferable
Definition: used of persons or their behavior
Usage: impossible behavior; insufferable insolence
Similar words: unbearable, unendurable, intolerable
Definition: incapable of being put up with
Usage: an intolerable degree of sentimentality