Acceptable and Wrong

Acceptable

Acceptable adjective - Of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards.
Usage example: told the bike rental man that a ten-speed with four broken gears was not acceptable

Wrong is an antonym for acceptable.

Wrong

Wrong adjective - Falling short of a standard.
Usage example: there is something wrong with this cake—it has a funny taste

Acceptable is an antonym for wrong in topics: reverse, immoral, inappropriate, incorrect.

Both words in one sentence

  • Junk food is not an acceptable diet, and no amount of immortality elixir will prove that wrong.
  • The game gets some things right but others wrong, which is acceptable for the sake of gameplay.
  • Family-Unfriendly Aesop On a Lost Colony where cycles of famine have made cannibalism common and acceptable, he has a preacher teaching that cannibalism is wrong.
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Wrong and Acceptable. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/acceptable/wrong
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