accepting

The word “accepting” has 3 syllables: ac-cep-ting

It's pronounced as /əkˈsɛptɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for accepting?

In the thesaurus, “accepting” has 342 synonyms and 205 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for accepting along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for accepting

abiding
abject
absorbing
acceding
acceptance
acceptive
acclaiming
accord
accounting
accrediting
acknowledgment
acquiescence
acquiescing
acquiring
acquisition
admiring
admission
admitting
adopting
adoption
adoring
adulatory
advisory
advocating
affirmation
affirming
agreeing
agreement
allowing
altering
amenable
applauding
applying
appreciative
approbatory
appropriation
approval
approving
arrogation
artless
assent
assenting
assuming
assurance
attending
attentive
attestation
authenticating
authentication
authorization
authorizing
avowal
backing
bearing
becoming
belief
believing
biding
bleak
blue
born yesterday
bringing in
brokenhearted
brooking
buying
capitulating
certain
certainty
championing
cheerless
childlike
collecting
comfortless
commendatory
commending
compliance
complimentary
concentrating
concluding
confidence
confident
confiding
confirming
conjecture
consent
consenting
convinced
cooperation
corroborating
corroboration
countenancing
credit
crediting
credulous
crestfallen
cynical
dark
deducing
dejected
demonstration
dependence
dependent
depressed
depressing
desolate
despairing
desperate
despondent
disappointed
disconsolate
discouraged
disheartened
dismal
dispirited
doleful
down
downcast
downhearted
drawing
drear
dreary
dupable
earning
easy mark
embracing
employing
encomiastic
endorsement
endorsing
enduring
enjoying
espousing
eulogistic
evidence
expectation
faith
falling for
fancy
favorable
favoring
flattering
forlorn
friendly
funereal
gaining
gathering
getting
gloomy
glum
go ahead
going
going for
good
grab
green
green light
grieving
growing
guess
guileless
gullable
gullible
hacking
hagiographic
hagiographical
handling
hangdog
having
having faith
hearkening
heartbroken
heartsick
heartsore
heeding
holding with
hopeful
hopeless
hunch
hypothesis
idolizing
inconsolable
indorsing
inference
inferring
inheriting
innocent
interested
joyless
kind
laudative
laudatory
lauding
lenient
liking
living with
low
low-spirited
magnanimous
making
meeting
melancholy
merciful
miserable
mournful
naive
nod
obtaining
okay
okaying
open
open-minded
overconfident
overtrusting
panegyrical
passage
passing
paying attention
permission
permitting
pessimistic
pocketing
posit
positive
postulate
postulation
practicing
praiseful
praising
premise
presuming
presumption
presupposition
proof
proving
ratifying
reaccepting
reassuming
receipt
receiving
reception
recognition
recommendatory
recommending
reliance
reliant
resigned
respectful
respecting
sad
saddened
saluting
sanction
sanctioning
secure
securing
seizure
setting store by
setting store on
shot
shot in the dark
shouldering
simple
sneaking suspicion
sorrowful
sorry
stab
stamp of approval
standing
standing by
standing for
sticking out
stock
stomaching
store
submitting to
substantiation
succumbing
suffering
support
supporting
supportive
supposal
supposing
supposition
sure
surmise
suspicion
sustaining
swallow whole
swallowing
sweating out
sympathetic
taken in
takeover
taking
taking kindly to
taking on
taking over
taking up
testament
testimonial
testimony
testing
theorization
theory
thesis
tolerating
toughing it out
trustful
trusting
uncritical
understanding
undertaking
undoubting
unhappy
unquestioning
unsophisticated
unsuspecting
unsuspicious
unwary
upholding
usurpation
validating
verification
verifying
visa
wailing
warm
warrant
warranting
wearing
weeping
welcoming
witness
woebegone
woeful
working
worshipful
worshiping
worshipping
wretched
yes

Antonyms for accepting

abandoning
abjuring
abnegating
adverse
animated
annulment
avoiding
backing down
backing off
backtracking
belittling
blacklisting
blissful
blithe
blithesome
buoyant
bypassing
calculation
cancellation
captious
carping
caviling
cavilling
censuring
certainty
challenging
cheerful
cheery
chipper
circumventing
combating
combatting
condemning
contemptuous
contesting
contradiction
critical
criticizing
damning
declining
delighted
denial
denouncing
denying
deprecating
depreciating
depreciative
depreciatory
derogatory
destruction
detesting
detouring
disagreement
disallowing
disapproval
disapproving
disavowing
disbelief
disbelieving
disbursing
disclaiming
discountenancing
discrediting
disdainful
disfavoring
disliking
dismissing
disowning
disparaging
disputing
dissension
dissent
distrust
distrustful
distrusting
dodging
doubt
doubtful
doubting
dubious
ecstatic
elated
eluding
encouraged
enraptured
entranced
escaping
euphoric
evading
exhilarated
exuberant
exultant
fact
faithlessness
faultfinding
fear
fighting
forbearing
forsaking
gay
genuineness
giving
giving up
glad
gladdened
gladsome
gleeful
happy
hating
heartened
hesitant
holding off
hopeful
hypercritical
inappreciative
inattentive
incredulous
indifferent
jaunty
jocund
jolly
jovial
joyful
joyous
jubilant
knowledge
leary
leery
lightsome
lively
loathing
losing
measurement
merry
minding
mirthful
misdoubting
misgiving
missing
mistrustful
mistrusting
naturalness
negative
negativing
opposing
opposition
optimistic
overcritical
oversuspicious
perky
proof
protesting
questioning
reality
realness
recanting
refusal
refusing
rejecting
rejection
relinquishing
renouncing
reprehending
reprobating
repudiating
resisting
retracting
scornful
skeptical
slighting
sprightful
sprightly
spurning
sunny
surrendering
suspecting
suspicious
taking back
throwing off
trustless
truth
turning down
unappreciative
unbelieving
uncertain
uncertainty
uncomplimentary
unconvinced
undecided
unexpected
unfavorable
unflattering
unfriendly
unpersuaded
unsaying
unsure
untrusting
upbeat
veto
vetoing
vivacious
void
wary
withdrawing
withstanding

Meanings of accepting

verb
1. To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
2. To admit to a place or a group.
3. To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
4. To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
5. To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
6. To endure patiently.
7. To agree to pay.
8. To receive officially.
9. To receive something willingly.
adjective
1. Characterized by acceptance.

Example Sentences

She is known for her accepting nature, always welcoming new ideas.
The community has been very accepting of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
He found peace in accepting the things he could not change.
The organization focuses on accepting individuals from all walks of life.
Learning to be accepting of others is a valuable life skill.

On this page you'll find 547 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to accepting, such as: abandoning, abiding, abject, abjuring, abnegating, absorbing, acceding.

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