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acceptible

acceptible is the obsolete spelling of acceptable.

Meaning of acceptable

Adjective

acceptable (comparative more acceptable, superlative most acceptable)

  1. Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; welcome; gratifying; pleasing to a receiver.
    • We need to find an acceptable present for Jeff.
  2. Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
    • The designs were acceptable, but they were nothing special either.

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Forms of acceptible

comparativemore acceptible
superlativemost acceptible

Origin of acceptible

Morphologically accept + -ible. Equivalent forms are not attested in Middle English or any etymon of acceptable.

Words formed from acceptible

Questions about acceptible

What is acceptible the obsolete spelling of?
Acceptible is the obsolete spelling of acceptable.

Words near acceptible in the dictionary

  1. accepter
  2. accepters
  3. acceptest
  4. accepteth
  5. acceptibility
  6. acceptible
  7. acceptibly
  8. acceptilate
  9. acceptilated
  10. acceptilates
  11. acceptilating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acceptible (page history and authors); acceptable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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