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Unobjectionable

Definition: Unobjectionable

Unobjectionable

Adjective

1. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke".

2. Not causing disapproval; "it was an innocuous remark"; "confined himself to innocuous generalities"; "unobjectionable behavior".

3. Not objectionable; "the ends are unobjectionable; it's the means that one can't accept".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unobjectionable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)


Synonyms: Unobjectionable

Synonyms: clean (adj), innocuous (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: dirty (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unobjectionable

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Imperfection

Indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average; so-so; coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough, adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.

Inexpedience

Tolerable; (not very good); up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable; satisfactory, tidy.

Innocence

Inculpable, unculpable; unblamed, unblamable; blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable; venial.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Unobjectionable

"Unobjectionable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unobjectionable" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2176,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unobjectionable

Language Translations for "unobjectionable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që nuk shkakton kundërshtime. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

безобиден (harmless, ingenuous, unoffending), приемлив (acceptable, admissible, arguable, eligible, plausible, possible, reasonable, tidy). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

可反对. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nezávadný. (various references)

   

German

  

einwandfrei (faultless, immaculate, immaculately, immaculateness, impeccable, indisputable, irreproachable, perfect, sound, unexceptionable, untainted). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αρεστόσ (likeable, satisfactory). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kifogástalan (beyond reproach, blameless, correct, immaculate, impeccable, irreproachable, laudable, unexceptionable, unimpeachable). (various references)

   

Italian

  

legittimo (just, lawful, legal, legitimate, perfect, righteous, rightful). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

objectionableunay

   

Portuguese

  

irrepreensível (faultless, irreproachable, unblamable, unexceptionable, unimpeachable). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

inofensiv (harmless, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, sackless, unoffending), care nu supãrã, care nu jigneşte. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

не вызывающий возражений (unchallenged). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neprigovorljiv. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

invändvändningsfri. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sakıncasız (unexceptionable), itiraz edilemez (incontestable, unanswerable, unassailable, unexceptionable, unexceptional), aleyhinde konuşulamaz. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không thể phản đối (unchallengeable), không thể bác; không chê trách được. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unobjectionable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-e-e-i-j-l-n-n-o-o-t-u"

-2 letters: objectionable.

-3 letters: unnoticeable.

-4 letters: enucleation.

-5 letters: binucleate, bluebonnet, enunciable, injectable, junctional, noticeable, nucleation, obnubilate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unobjectionable


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6F 62 6A 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ---    -...    .---    .    -.-.    -    ..    ---    -.    .-    -...    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101111 01100010 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#111 &#98 &#106 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006F 0062 006A 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558081687671698675818067687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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