inacceptableadj.
/ˌɪnəkˈsɛptəbl/, U.S. /ˌɪnəkˈsɛptəb(ə)l/ Now rare.
Not acceptable, unacceptable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [adjective] > causing discontent or unsatisfactory
unacceptable1483
discontentive1578
inacceptable1578
discontenting1579
discontentful1604
dissatisfactoryc1610
undigestable1612
ungratifying1695
dissatisfying1709
unsatisfactory1843
crook1898
zilch1958
1578 W. Hopkinson tr. T. de Bèze Euident Display Popish Pract. 122 Sometimes their actions be good, and therefore acceptable to God, but sometimes euill, and therefore inacceptable to God.
1627 A. Darcie tr. J. Sleidane Key Hist. Ep. Ded. sig. B12v I hope this small present of mine, sent to the manuring of the seed-plot of your learning, will not be inacceptable.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. i. vi. in Medicinal Dispensatory 10 There is such an antipathy betwixt our nature and Purgations, that the very smell of them is inacceptable.
1714 R. Helsham & P. Delaney Long Hist. Short Session 15 They cou'd not but conclude him, not innacceptable to his G—ce.
1747 tr. Two Mem. Abbé de la Ville 47 By Reason of the hard and inacceptable Conditions..the Thing did not succeed.
1838 Millennial Harbinger June 247 To ascribe to any arrangement of items a divine appointment, is to make every departure from it positively sinful and inacceptable to God.
1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. viii. 445 The French made propositions of peace, but they appeared utterly inacceptable.
1938 E. Bevan Symbolism & Belief v. 108 I am in the company of others who find Professor Alexander's philosophy in this respect inacceptable.
1970 H. Braun Parish Churches xii. 160 Such dreariness being inacceptable to the parish churchman..Gothic forms began..to represent the appropriate Anglican architecture.
2000 Mayo News 5 July 38/2 This is inacceptable and ICMSA is calling on the Minister to take immediate action to re-open the scheme.
Derivatives
ˌinacceptaˈbility n. the quality or condition of being inacceptable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun] > unsatisfactory quality or thing
bad satisfaction1607
unacceptableness1648
dissatisfactoriness1677
dissatisfaction1702
unacceptability1852
inacceptability1857
1857 Jrnls. Legislative Assembly Province Canada 15 App. no. 47 sig. H70 The only cause of this emigration is..the inacceptability of the Crown Lands through the absence of roads.
1922 Glasgow Herald 13 May 8 Whatever..France's attitude..might be, the inacceptability of the memorandum as a whole appears to render equally null in her eyes this detail.
2000 Classical Q. 50 546 The attack on a given proposition aims at convincing the audience of its inacceptability.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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