unacceptable

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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acceptable (əkˈsɛptəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	satisfactory; adequate
2.	pleasing; welcome
3.	tolerable

accepta'bility

—n

ac'ceptableness

—n

ac'ceptably

—*adv*

unacceptable (ˌʌnəkˈsɛptəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	not satisfactory; inadequate: the standard was wholly unacceptable
2.	intolerable: hitting children is unacceptable

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Word Origin & History

unacceptable

late 15c., from un- (1) "not" + acceptable.

acceptable

late 14c., from O.Fr. acceptable, from L. acceptabilis, from acceptare (see accept).

Example sentences

Be prepared to reject the offer if the terms are unacceptable to you.

Of course, a defaulting country may regard such intrusions as an unacceptable

violation of its sovereignty.

Certain kinds of flirtation deemed unacceptable today could perhaps one day be

regarded as relatively harmless.

The risk introduced by this pavement marking should be completely unacceptable

given the virtually non-existent benefit.

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"Byron's revealing line, "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep," suggests that the comic sense is parasitical upon the tragic. In order to avoid our tragic encounters with the transitoriness of passing fact, the fading of beauty, the destructive consequences of moral evil, alienation from the primary source of value, we make fun. The making of fun where no real occasion for fun exists is essentially what comedy is about. Tragedy and comedy are, indeed, but two masks worn by the same character alternately, depending on the exigencies of the moment; that is, depending upon which mask best represents him in such a way as successfully to reduce the unacceptable tensions of his ambience. Thus the obvious truth of Socrates' argument at the end of the Symposium. Both tragedy and comedy are but one-sided expressions of the ironic sensibility."

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