Meanings
comparative more unexceptionable · superlative most unexceptionable
- Beyond reproach; unimpeachable.
My turn-out was unexceptionable; men copied my running-shoes; my jacket and trowsers were an admiration; my bat perfection; I was the very picture of a cricketer, but, alas! very little more than a picture.
1860 August 24, “The Demon Bowler”, in The Brant Expositor, volume VIII, number 45, Brantford, Canada West, →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, column 3
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecompletely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Italic*eks
- Latinex
- Latinex-
- Proto-Indo-European*kap-
- Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
- Proto-Italic*kapjō
- Latincapiō
- Latinexcipiō
- Latinexceptiō
- Old Frenchexcepcion
- Anglo-Normanexcepcioun
- Middle Englishexception
- Englishexception
- Englishexceptionable
- Englishunexceptionable
From un- + exceptionable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian безупречен
- безупречен (bezuprečen)beyond reproach
Dutch onberispelijk
- onberispelijkbeyond reproach
Italian ineccepibile
- ineccepibilebeyond reproach
Romanian incontestabil, nereproșabil
- incontestabilbeyond reproach
- nereproșabilbeyond reproach
- inatacabilbeyond reproach
Cite this entry
unexceptionable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexceptionable
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