accepting

adjective

ac·​cept·​ing ik-ˈsep-tiŋ 

ak-

1

: able or willing to accept something or someone : inclined to regard something or someone with acceptance rather than with hostility or fear

—often + of

I had become more accepting of death as an inevitable and natural part of life …

—Nigel Farndalem

2

: tending to regard different types of people and ways of life with tolerance and acceptance

His parents are very accepting people.

acceptingly adverb

We are the masters of our own minds, and we can learn to think better, more openly and acceptingly, while still staying safe; we can make this a better place for us all.

—Maia Rizzi

acceptingness noun

Which was why it was such a miracle for me, her acceptingness of me. I mean, I really mean acceptingness—not acceptance but acceptingness.

—Gordon Lish

Examples of accepting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Wright's journey involved coming out as gay in 2010, a time when the country music industry was less accepting of LGBTQ+ artists. —Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

Williams said Trump has made the Republican Party more accepting of gay people. —Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025

These questions are resolved, more or less, in an anticlimactic wrap-up that yields the relatively meager payoff of Lilian learning to be a better listener and a more accepting mother. —David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025

But advocates in Bridgeport, who have repeatedly called for reforms to the state’s absentee ballot laws, were less accepting of the legislature’s failure to take up the measure this session. —Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for accepting

• excepting
• intercepting