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adjectiveinacceptable (comparative more inacceptable, superlative most inacceptable)
comparative more inacceptable · superlative most inacceptable
- nonstandardproscribedUnacceptable.First known use 1578
And there is ſuch an antipathy betwixt our nature and Purgations, that the very ſmell of them is inacceptable; […]
1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of the faculties of Medicaments, and how many sorts there be accordingly”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, book I ([…]), page 10Synonyms: unacceptable
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adjectiveUnacceptable.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inacceptable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inacceptable.
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