Synonyms of accepting

accepting 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in believing

Related Words

• believing
• confident
• convinced
• unquestioning
• trusting
• secure
• unsuspecting
• certain
• sure
• unwary
• overconfident
• unsuspicious
• confiding
• trustful
• childlike
• gullible
• naive
• credulous
• unsophisticated
• dependent
• hopeful
• guileless
• innocent
• reliant
• simple
• artless

Dissimilar Words

• uncertain
• skeptical
• questioning
• doubtful
• doubting
• distrustful
• mistrustful
• wary
• disbelieving
• unconvinced
• incredulous
• undecided
• unsure
• suspicious
• unbelieving
• hesitant
• unpersuaded
• untrusting
• dubious
• leery
• trustless
• oversuspicious

2

as in approving

Related Words

• approving
• warm
• positive
• favorable
• appreciative
• admiring
• complimentary
• friendly
• supportive
• commendatory
• flattering
• applauding
• respectful
• sympathetic
• laudatory
• eulogistic
• encomiastic
• hagiographic
• approbatory
• good
• panegyrical
• adoring
• praiseful
• worshipping
• worshipful
• laudative
• adulatory
• advisory
• idolizing
• recommendatory

Dissimilar Words

• negative
• unfavorable
• adverse
• disapproving
• unfriendly
• derogatory
• unflattering
• unappreciative
• uncomplimentary
• depreciatory
• depreciative
• critical
• inappreciative
• censuring
• overcritical
• captious
• hypercritical
• disparaging
• faultfinding
• contemptuous
• scornful
• disdainful
• belittling
• slighting
• carping
• caviling

3

as in resigned

Related Words

• resigned
• pessimistic
• cynical
• depressing
• grieving
• bleak
• dismal
• cheerless
• discouraged
• weeping
• wailing
• abject
• disappointed
• dark
• comfortless
• funereal
• desolate
• unhappy
• desperate
• dreary
• dispirited
• despairing
• depressed
• disheartened
• sad
• drear
• disconsolate
• dejected
• crestfallen
• downcast
• hangdog
• saddened
• sorrowful
• heartbroken
• blue
• miserable
• mournful
• sorry
• doleful
• hopeless
• glum
• gloomy
• woebegone
• joyless
• melancholy
• down
• woeful
• despondent
• brokenhearted
• heartsick
• inconsolable
• wretched
• low
• downhearted
• forlorn
• low-spirited
• heartsore

Dissimilar Words

• optimistic
• hopeful
• exuberant
• ecstatic
• enraptured
• exultant
• gay
• euphoric
• jovial
• jolly
• merry
• encouraged
• blithe
• elated
• mirthful
• happy
• exhilarated
• glad
• lively
• cheerful
• entranced
• joyful
• joyous
• animated
• delighted
• vivacious
• perky
• buoyant
• cheery
• upbeat
• jubilant
• jaunty
• gleeful
• blithesome
• blissful
• sprightly
• sunny
• jocund
• heartened
• lightsome
• chipper
• sprightful
• gladdened
• gladsome

accepting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of accept

1

as in having

to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly

some merchants in town will accept Canadian coins

Synonyms & Similar Words

• having
• taking
• adopting
• confirming
• tolerating
• sanctioning
• ratifying
• welcoming
• embracing
• warranting
• consenting (to)
• supporting
• acceding (to)
• swallowing
• submitting (to)
• assenting (to)
• sustaining
• conceding (to)
• yielding (to)
• succumbing (to)
• standing
• bowing (to)
• surrendering (to)
• countenancing
• enduring
• acquiescing (to)
• abiding
• shouldering
• capitulating (to)
• giving in (to)
• sticking out
• brooking
• stomaching
• OK'ing
• sweating out
• bearing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• denying
• refusing
• rejecting
• declining
• opposing
• disapproving
• disallowing
• protesting
• dissenting (to)
• resisting
• spurning
• objecting (to)
• vetoing
• turning down
• withstanding
• fighting
• negativing
• combating
• contesting
• holding off

2

as in tolerating

to have a favorable opinion of

her husband feels that he has never been truly accepted by his wife's family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tolerating
• supporting
• favoring
• enjoying
• approving (of)
• subscribing (to)
• liking
• going for
• applauding
• countenancing
• caring (for)
• praising
• sustaining
• holding with
• recommending
• upholding
• taking kindly to
• saluting
• lauding
• OK'ing
• enduring
• commending
• standing by
• acclaiming
• backing (up)
• concurring (in)
• consenting (to)
• assenting (to)
• bearing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• criticizing
• condemning
• denouncing
• frowning (on or upon)
• disparaging
• disapproving (of)
• deprecating
• depreciating
• censuring
• damning
• blacklisting
• disliking
• hating
• opposing
• disfavoring
• discountenancing
• reprobating
• minding
• reprehending
• loathing
• dissenting (from)
• objecting (to)
• detesting

3

as in taking

to regard as right or true

refused to accept that her friend had said those mean things

Synonyms & Similar Words

• believing
• taking
• understanding
• trusting
• buying
• swallowing
• crediting
• accounting
• assuming
• accrediting
• presuming
• setting store by
• deducing
• inferring
• supposing
• concluding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejecting
• disbelieving
• discrediting
• questioning
• doubting
• suspecting
• distrusting
• mistrusting
• challenging
• disputing
• misdoubting

4

as in assuming

to take to or upon oneself

accepted the responsibility of sending out the invitations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assuming
• shouldering
• bearing
• embracing
• undertaking
• adopting
• taking over
• endorsing
• advocating
• supporting
• acquiescing
• upholding
• consenting
• assenting
• agreeing
• championing
• acceding
• backing
• taking up
• standing by
• espousing
• reaccepting
• reassuming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• withdrawing
• rejecting
• refusing
• repudiating
• disclaiming
• disavowing
• renouncing
• disowning
• retracting
• declining
• recanting
• taking back
• avoiding
• spurning
• abjuring
• turning down
• bypassing
• abandoning
• refraining (from)
• relinquishing
• abstaining (from)
• forbearing
• surrendering
• forsaking
• giving up
• detouring
• unsaying
• backtracking
• backing down
• backing off
• abnegating

5

as in handling

to put up with (something painful or difficult)

he accepted all of life's vicissitudes without complaint

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tolerating
• handling
• standing
• enduring
• taking
• sustaining
• bearing
• absorbing
• supporting
• swallowing
• stomaching
• abiding
• meeting
• wearing
• pocketing
• living with
• sticking out
• countenancing
• standing for
• hacking
• biding
• going
• lumping (it)
• brooking
• suffering
• allowing
• permitting
• sweating out
• toughing it out
• respecting
• acquiescing
• reconciling (to)
• submitting (to)
• yielding (to)
• capitulating
• agreeing (with or to)
• consenting (to)
• assenting (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refusing
• rejecting
• dismissing
• declining
• opposing
• resisting
• repudiating
• fighting
• avoiding
• combating
• turning down
• contesting
• missing
• escaping
• spurning
• evading
• bypassing
• circumventing
• dodging
• eluding
• refraining (from)
• abstaining (from)
• forbearing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of accepting

Adjective

Go back to a less accepting time in the UK. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026

Researchers and clinicians are more accepting of the idea that the common understanding of PCOS is misguided. — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 1 Apr. 2026

Verb

The heart of ‘The Rehearsals’ is not Alzheimer’s itself, but care as an everyday practice and as an experience of accepting the cycles of life. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026

So deep are the divisions that hardliners have accused officials of deliberately mismanaging the economic crisis to pressure an exhausted public into accepting a deal. — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026