Acceptable
Acceptable adjective - Judged to be in conformity with approved usage.
Usage example: acceptable English usage
Received and acceptable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Received" instead an adjective "Acceptable".
Received
Received adjective - Conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers.
Usage example: “"
received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British)”
Acceptable and received are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Acceptable" instead an adjective "Received".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- sound and acceptable
- sound and received
- welcome and acceptable
- welcome and received
- common and acceptable
- common and received
- ordinary and acceptable
- ordinary and received
- regular and acceptable
- regular and received
- standard and acceptable
- standard and received
- correct and acceptable
- correct and received
Both words in one sentence
- Since the Borat movie was well-received critically and commercially, it is probably safe to say most people found the humor at least somewhat acceptable.
Source: Acceptable Ethnic Targets -
This one was much more well-received and considered more aesthetically acceptable.
Source: Video Game / Scarlet Blade - A programmer named Patrick Craig then asked if it would be acceptable for there to be several compressed data files, and was told yes, enabling his creative loophole abuse: he entered the contest, received a 3Mb file which could not be compressed, and identified the most common byte in it.
Source: Loophole Abuse / Real Life
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