acceptable
/əkˈsɛptəb(ə)l/
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American sound/əkˈsɛptəb(ə)l/
əkˈsɛptəbəl
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ək - ˈsɛptəbəl -> acceptable
Myanmar meaning
(adj) လက်ခံနိုင်သော။ ယူနိုင်သော။ လက်သင့်ခံနိုင်သော။ (နှစ်လိုဖွယ်)ကောင်းသော။
Full entry
acceptable / ǝk'septǝbl / adj
၁။ လက်ခံနိုင်သော။ socially acceptable behaviour.
၂။ ယူနိုင်သော။ လက်သင့်ခံနိုင်သော။ acceptable risks/ injuries ❍ The decision should be acceptable to most people.
၃။ (နှစ်လိုဖွယ်) ကောင်းသော။ A cup of tea would be most acceptable.
acceptability /ǝkseptǝ'bÇlǝti / n [U], acceptably /-bli / adv
More examples
- [socially/politically/morally acceptable] : Pollution on this level is no longer socially acceptable.
- [acceptable to] : The proposals must be acceptable to the shareholders.
- [acceptable for someone to do something] : By the 1960s, it was becoming more acceptable for women to work in management.
- A success rate of 65% is acceptable.
- The service was attentive, the food acceptable but somewhat uninspiring.
- Acceptably low levels of risk
Synonyms
satisfactory, suitable, good enough, adequate, up to standard, tolerable, okay, all right, usual, standard, conventional, customary, normal, within acceptable limits, A-OK, admissible, agreeable, appropriate, average, big, common, cooking with gas, cool, copacetic, decent, delightful, enjoyable, fair, gratifying, hep, hip, hunky-dory, in the swim, kosher, large, on the ball, on the beam, passable, peachy keen, pleasant, pleasing, respectable, right on, sufficient, swell, trendy, unexceptional, unobjectionable, up to code, up to snuff, welcome
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