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Unacceptable vs Unwanted - What's the difference?

unacceptable | unwanted |

As adjectives the difference between unacceptable and unwanted

is that unacceptable is unsatisfactory; not acceptable while unwanted is not wanted, welcome or acceptable.

As a noun unwanted is

one who or that which is not wanted; an undesirable.

unacceptable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • unsatisfactory; not acceptable
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 16 , author=Denis Campbell , title=Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage="This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."}}
  • (linguistics) not conforming to accepted usage

    • Synonyms

    * inacceptable (less common)

    Antonyms

    * acceptable

    unwanted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • not wanted, welcome or acceptable

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "unwanted" is often applied: effect, consequence, pregnancy, child, baby, person, guest, visitor, gift, thought, element, sound, sex, feature.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who or that which is not wanted; an undesirable.
  • * 1963 , The Nyasaland Journal (volumes 16-17, page 12)
    • What slaves they had bought to carry the goods of the interior back to the coast were the unwanteds of the villages — the persons convicted of crime who would normally have been killed or banished from their communities
  • * 1970 , Triumph (volumes 5-6, page 7)
    • There were no thoughts of hydrogen bombs or CBW or contraceptives or removing unwanteds . It was the old America, the old order restored, and the President saw that it was Good.