Difference between Acceptable and Adequate

ACCEPTABLE vs ADEQUATE: ADJECTIVE

Judged to be in conformity with approved usage
Adequate for the purpose
Meeting requirements
Adequate to satisfy a need, requirement, or standard; satisfactory: : sufficient.
Satisfactory but not superior; passable: : average.
Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
Worthy of acceptance or satisfactory

Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; hence, pleasing to the receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome: as, an acceptable present.

Acceptable
About average
To attain equality with; equal.
To make equal or adequate.
Equal to requirement or occasion; commensurate; fully sufficient, suitable, or fit: as, means adequate to the object; an adequate comparison.

Reasonable, Appropriate, Permissible, Unacceptable, Received, Bankable, Unimpeachable, Fit, Good, Accepted, Standard, Unexceptionable, Unobjectionable, Satisfactory, Tolerable

Ample, Proper, Inadequate, Insufficient, Fair to middling, Equal to, Adequate to, Up to, Capable, Passable, Competent, Decent, Enough, Satisfactory, Sufficient

Reasonable, Appropriate, Permissible, Unacceptable, Received, Bankable, Unimpeachable, Fit, Good, Accepted, Standard, Unexceptionable, Unobjectionable, Satisfactory, Tolerable

Ample, Proper, Inadequate, Insufficient, Fair to middling, Equal to, Adequate to, Up to, Capable, Passable, Competent, Decent, Enough, Satisfactory, Sufficient

Train employees on acceptable record and system access.
What tests are acceptable for the testing option?
The arbitration process proposed may not be acceptable.
Use humor that is acceptable to the group.
Photocopies of the documentary evidence are not acceptable.
Acceptable Allocations The impact on the guaranteed plan of insurance will vary, depending which of the following acceptable allocations is chosen.
Process if voter does not have acceptable identification Voters who do not have acceptable identification can sign an affidavit and vote a regular ballot.
Relational framing: The power to render acceptable transactions unacceptable and unacceptable transactions acceptable.
Define the romantic and friendly behavior that is acceptable and what is not acceptable.
Process if voter does not have acceptable identification Voters who are unable to provide acceptable identification may cast a regular ballot.

The record is adequate to address these issues.
Commercially adequate access to public streets and ways?
Torres has not proved to be statistically adequate.
ERISA with the lack of adequate fiduciary standards.
Ensuring that adequate internal controls are in place.
Proposed Adequate Assurance of payment for postpetition services, and established procedures for resolving requests for additional adequate assurance of payment.
If it is determined that a BOS is not available at all or is not adequate, the customer should obtain an adequate BOS.
Adequate provision should be made to assemble in adequate quantities expertise that enables the court to respond to multiple protection and assistance needs.
However, the airport already has adequate capacity and will continue to have adequate capacity in the foreseeable future.
Other methods are not adequate and cannot be made adequate.