aceptables

Aceptables is the plural form of the Spanish adjective acceptable, meaning that something can be accepted or meets predefined criteria. It is used to describe results, performances, or items that conform to standards or expectations. The term appears in contexts such as quality control, evaluation, policy language, and everyday speech.

Etymology and grammar: aceptable comes from Latin acceptabilis, from accipere, meaning to take toward oneself or to admit. In Spanish, the singular form is aceptable for both masculine and feminine, and the plural form is aceptables for both genders. This makes aceptables a neutral plural adjective that can modify masculine or feminine nouns in the plural.

Usage: In formal and technical writing, phrases such as niveles aceptables, criterios aceptables, or riesgos aceptables indicate thresholds of tolerance permitted by a standard, regulation, or policy. In reporting, one might see statements like Los resultados son aceptables or La calidad de los productos es aceptable. In everyday language, aceptable also conveys general sufficiency or adequacy, as in “un servicio aceptable.”

Variations and related terms: Related concepts include aceptabilidad (the quality or state of being acceptable) and aceptar (to accept). The antonym is inaceptable, and its plural is inaceptables. While aceptables is primarily adjectival, in some informal uses it can function as a reduced nominal form referring to acceptable items or categories, though this is less common in formal writing.

See also: Acceptable quality level (AQL), criteria, evaluation.