acceptable

Modifying Another Word

• socially: Top of Page HOW WOMEN ARE BETTER THAN DOGS It is socially acceptable to have sexual relations with a woman.
• mutually: By looking at these details we are often able to help you to arrange a mutually acceptable payment plan.
• perfectly: A solution, which is perfectly acceptable to HMRC, is to substitute some of the employe's pay with the childcare vouchers.
• ethically: The rules that should govern an ethically acceptable policy on abortion are not difficult to define.
• morally: The bible does not allow us to think that ignorance automatically means we are morally acceptable.
• environmentally: The air conditioning equipment also operated with refrigerants that now need replacing with more environmentally acceptable alternatives.

Modifies a noun

• compromise: Acceptable compromises are made, and user education or library orientation sessions make up for the shortcomings.
• substitute: As kosher food is an acceptable substitute for halal meat, many of the usual arguments over food at the wedding reception were bypassed.
• behavior: The Olympic Security Command Center issued NSW Police with a handbook which detailed acceptable behavior inside the Olympic stadium.
• alternative: You may be an acceptable alternative for the bag.
• standard: Posters are reminded that there are acceptable standards which apply to all posts.
• level: Self catering - stars Acceptable overall level of quality.

Used with adjective complement

• deem: For example, Acrobat was already being widely used, hence PDF was deemed acceptable.
• consider: More dead pixels are usually considered acceptable around the edges of the screen than in its center.
• seem: The effect, rather than a commendable attempt to resist offering facile explanations, is to glorify the crimes and make them seem acceptable.
• become: Such less than ideal locations become far more acceptable for housing where dual aspect apartments are proposed.
• prove: Nothing I had to say was likely to prove acceptable, and my own life saw many changes.

Preposition: in

• lieu: UK postage stamps are acceptable in lieu of cheques/postal orders for small amounts.
• principle: Outline permission For a new building you can submit an outline planning application to check whether it's acceptable in principle.