Synonyms for unacceptable

Synonyms for (adj) unacceptable

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


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