There is an overlap in meaning between the words unexceptionable and unexceptional. Strictly speaking, unexceptionable means ‘not open to objection’ (this view is unexceptionable in itself), while unexceptional means ‘not out of the ordinary; usual’ (the hotel was adequate but unexceptional). However, the meaning of unexceptionable is often indeterminate between ‘not open to objection’ and ‘ordinary’, as in the food was bland and unexceptionable.