UNOBJECTIONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unobjectionable mean? 

• UNOBJECTIONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNOBJECTIONABLE has 3 senses:

1. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers

2. not causing disapproval

3. not objectionable

  Familiarity information: UNOBJECTIONABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNOBJECTIONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers

Synonyms:

clean; unobjectionable

Context example:

a clean joke

Similar:

antiseptic (devoid of objectionable language)

Also:

decent (conforming to conventions of sexual behavior)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not causing disapproval

Synonyms:

innocuous; unobjectionable

Context example:

unobjectionable behavior

Similar:

inoffensive (giving no offense)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not objectionable

Context example:

the ends are unobjectionable; it's the means that one can't accept

Similar:

acceptable (worthy of acceptance or satisfactory)

 Context examples 

It would be folly to call him distingué, but he is at least unobjectionable.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is a person we have to sew and assist Leah in her housemaid's work, continued the widow; not altogether unobjectionable in some points, but she does well enough.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sir Walter was not very wise; but still he had experience enough of the world to feel, that a more unobjectionable tenant, in all essentials, than Admiral Croft bid fair to be, could hardly offer.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The party was rather large, as it included one other family, a proper unobjectionable country family, whom the Coles had the advantage of naming among their acquaintance, and the male part of Mr. Cox's family, the lawyer of Highbury.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)