## Meanings
1. Good enough to be approved or allowed.
2. Good enough, but not excellent; just passable.
3. Considered correct or proper according to accepted standards.

## Examples
- The noise levels in the building are within acceptable limits.
- The food was acceptable, but nothing special.
- That spelling is no longer acceptable in formal writing.

## Derived Forms
- acceptableness
- acceptably
- inacceptably
- nonacceptable

## Related Forms
- acceptability

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *kap-
- Root: acceptable
- Root: acceptābilis
- Affix: -able - able to be

## Etymology
From Middle English acceptable, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French acceptable, from Late Latin acceptābilis (“worthy of acceptance”). Morphologically accept + -able.

## AI Etymology
Acceptable comes from Middle English acceptable, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French acceptable, from Late Latin acceptābilis (“worthy of acceptance”). Morphologically accept plus -able. The historical line also includes Proto-Indo-European *kap-. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern adjectival form is built from the named base and affix.

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