ratifying

• acceding
• accepting
• accession
• accommodation
• accord
• accordance
• accrediting
• acknowledging
• acquiescent
• adjustment
• affiliation
• affinity
• affirmatory
• affirming
• alliance
• allowing
• amity
• approbating
• approving
• arbitration
• arrangement
• assenting
• authorizing
• bargaining
• blessing
• canonizing
• certifying
• clearing
• compatibility
• compliance
• complying
• compromise
• concert
• concession
• concord
• concordance
• concurring
• confirmative
• confirmatory
• confirming
• conformity
• congruity
• consenting
• consistency
• correspondence
• corroborative
• enabling
• endorsing
• favorable
• finalizing
• formalizing
• granting
• harmony
• homologating
• indorsing
• initialing
• initialling
• legalizing
• licencing
• licensing
• mediation
• okaying
• passing
• permitting
• positive
• reapproving
• reconciliation
• rubber-stamping
• sanctifying
• sanctioning
• signing
• similarity
• suitableness
• supporting
• sympathy
• understanding
• union
• unison
• validating
• verification
• verifying
• warranting

• banning
• declining
• denial
• denying
• difference
• disagreement
• disallowing
• disapproving
• discord
• disharmony
• dislike
• disregarding
• dissension
• dissent
• dissenting
• dissimilarity
• disunity
• divorce
• enjoining
• fight
• forbidding
• hatred
• hostility
• ignoring
• illegalizing
• incompatibility
• interdicting
• negative
• negativing
• neglecting
• overlooking
• prohibiting
• proscribing
• rebuffing
• rebutting
• refusal
• refusing
• rejecting
• separation
• spurning
• turning down
• vetoing

• verb
  1. To give formal consent to; make officially valid, sign off on.

• The board is currently ratifying the new policy changes.
• They are in the process of ratifying the international agreement.
• The president is ratifying the bill after reviewing the amendments.
• The committee is ratifying the contract, and it will take effect next month.
• We are ratifying the proposal after gathering feedback from all departments.

acceding

• abatement
• abiding
• accession
• accommodation
• accord
• accordance
• acknowledging
• acquiescing
• adjustment
• adopting
• affiliation
• affinity
• agreeing
• alleviation
• alliance
• amends
• amity
• approving
• arbitration
• arrangement
• assenting
• assuagement
• authorizing
• bargaining
• blunting
• bowing
• chime
• co
• coming round
• compatibility
• compliance
• complying
• compromise
• concert
• concession
• conciliation
• concord
• concordance
• concurring
• conformity
• congruity
• consenting
• consistency
• correspondence
• easing
• embracing
• endorsing
• enduring
• espousing
• grant
• granting
• harmony
• knuckling under
• lessening
• lulling
• mediation
• mitigation
• moderation
• mollification
• peace offering
• placation
• propitiation
• quelling
• quenching
• quieting
• ratifying
• reconciliation
• relenting
• reparation
• restoration
• settlement
• similarity
• softening
• solace
• soothing
• standing
• stomaching
• submitting
• subscribing
• succumbing
• suffering
• suitableness
• swallowing
• sympathy
• taking
• tolerating
• tranquilization
• understanding
• union
• unison
• verification
• verifying
• yielding

acceptable

• A-OK
• OK
• adequate
• admissible
• agreeable
• all right
• appropriate
• average
• bearable
• big
• common
• cooking with gas
• cool
• copacetic
• correct
• decent
• delightful
• due
• endurable
• fair
• fairish
• fine
• fitting
• good
• gratifying
• hep
• hip
• hunky-dory
• in the swim
• indifferent
• kosher
• large
• mediocre
• meet
• middling
• minimal
• okay
• on the ball
• on the beam
• ordinary
• passable
• peachy keen
• pleasant
• pleasing
• proper
• respectable
• right
• right on
• run-of-mine
• run-of-the-mill
• run-of-the-mine
• satisfactory
• satisfying
• second-rate
• seemly
• serviceable
• so-so
• standard
• sufferable
• sufficient
• suitable
• swell
• tolerable
• trendy
• unexceptional
• unobjectionable
• up to code
• up to snuff
• useful
• welcome
• worthy

acceptably

• OK
• abundantly
• adequately
• admirably
• admissibly
• agreeably
• all right
• alright
• amiably
• amply
• appropriately
• aptly
• attractively
• averagely
• barely
• beautifully
• becomingly
• befittingly
• bountifully
• capably
• capaciously
• charmingly
• commensurately
• competently
• completely
• congruously
• copiously
• correctly
• creditably
• decently
• decorously
• desirably
• distinctively
• effectively
• effectually
• efficiently
• enjoyably
• enough
• excellently
• extensively
• fairly
• fairly well
• felicitously
• fine
• finely
• fittingly
• generously
• good
• graciously
• gratifyingly
• greatly
• happily
• lavishly
• liberally
• meetly
• middlingly
• moderately
• modestly
• neatly
• nicely
• okay
• passably
• perfectly
• pleasantly
• pleasantly enough
• pleasingly
• pleasurably
• plenteously
• plentifully
• presentably
• profusely
• properly
• proportionately
• rather
• reasonably
• respectably
• richly
• rightly
• satisfactorily
• satisfyingly
• seemly
• serviceably
• so-so
• substantially
• sufficiently
• suitably
• thoroughly
• tidily
• to an acceptable degree
• tolerably
• triumphantly
• unobjectionably
• well
• well enough
• winningly

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

accommodating

• abetting
• acclimating
• acclimatizing
• accommodative
• accustoming
• acquainting
• adapting
• adjusting
• agreeable
• aiding
• aligning
• alining
• altering
• amenable
• appeasing
• arranging
• arraying
• assisting
• attending
• attuning
• balancing
• barracking
• bending
• bestowing
• billeting
• bivouacking
• blending
• boarding
• bunking
• camping
• carrying
• chambering
• coddling
• combining
• comforting
• complaisant
• conciliating
• conditioning
• conforming
• connecting
• considerate
• containing
• converting
• cooperative
• coordinating
• correcting
• correlating
• customizing
• delighting
• doctoring
• domiciling
• dovetailing
• editing
• encamping
• enclosing
• encompassing
• enfolding
• ensconcing
• equalizing
• equipping
• establishing
• evening
• familiarizing
• fashioning
• favoring
• fine-tuning
• fitting
• friendly
• fusing
• gearing
• generous
• gladdening
• gracious
• gratifying
• habilitating
• habituating
• handy
• harboring
• hardening
• harmonizing
• helpful
• helping
• holding
• homing
• hospitable
• housing
• humoring
• inclosing
• indulgent
• indulging
• integrating
• inuring
• joining
• keying
• kind
• lenient
• lodging
• making over
• matching
• merging
• modeling
• modelling
• modifying
• mollifying
• mollycoddling
• naturalizing
• neighborly
• obliging
• on deck
• on tap
• orchestrating
• ordering
• orientating
• orienting
• overindulgent
• pacifying
• pairing
• pampering
• patterning
• permissive
• phasing
• placating
• pleasing
• polite
• preparing
• priming
• proportioning
• putting
• putting up
• quartering
• readapting
• readjusting
• readying
• recasting
• reclaiming
• reconciling
• recycling
• redesigning
• redeveloping
• redoing
• reengineering
• refashioning
• refiguring
• refitting
• refocusing
• registering
• regularizing
• regulating
• rehearsing
• reinventing
• rejiggering
• relieving
• remaking
• remodeling
• revamping
• revising
• reworking
• rigging
• roofing
• rooming
• roosting
• rooting
• satisfying
• seasoning
• seating
• securing
• settling
• shaping
• shedding
• sheltering
• solicitous
• squaring
• stabling
• standardizing
• succoring
• suiting
• supporting
• synchronizing
• synthesizing
• tailoring
• taking
• taking in
• tenting
• thoughtful
• toughening
• training
• transforming
• tuning
• unifying
• uniting
• unselfish
• user friendly

Browse the Thesaurus

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z