Synonyms of accept

accept 1 of 3

verb (1)

1

as in to have

to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly

some merchants in town will accept Canadian coins

Synonyms & Similar Words

• have
• take
• adopt
• confirm
• tolerate
• ratify
• okay
• welcome
• sanction
• accede (to)
• consent (to)
• concede (to)
• OK
• submit (to)
• embrace
• warrant
• endure
• yield (to)
• assent (to)
• swallow
• stand
• succumb (to)
• abide
• bow (to)
• surrender (to)
• sustain
• give in (to)
• support
• acquiesce (to)
• countenance
• stick out
• shoulder
• capitulate (to)
• stomach
• brook
• sweat out
• bear

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refuse
• deny
• reject
• negative
• decline
• oppose
• disapprove
• resist
• object (to)
• protest
• dissent (to)
• spurn
• disallow
• withstand
• veto
• turn down
• fight
• combat
• contest
• hold off

2

as in to tolerate

to have a favorable opinion of

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tolerate
• support
• approve (of)
• okay
• favor
• like
• OK
• subscribe (to)
• care (for)
• go for
• applaud
• enjoy
• countenance
• hold with
• sustain
• take kindly to
• recommend
• uphold
• endure
• salute
• praise
• stand by
• concur (in)
• commend
• consent (to)
• laud
• back (up)
• acclaim
• bear
• assent (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• criticize
• condemn
• denounce
• disapprove (of)
• frown (on or upon)
• disparage
• hate
• dislike
• deprecate
• depreciate
• damn
• mind
• censure
• oppose
• discountenance
• detest
• loathe
• disfavor
• object (to)
• reprehend
• blacklist
• dissent (from)
• reprobate

3

as in to believe

to regard as right or true

refused to accept that her friend had said those mean things

Synonyms & Similar Words

• believe
• take
• understand
• buy
• trust
• swallow
• credit
• set store on
• assume
• account
• presume
• set store by
• suppose
• deduce
• conclude
• accredit
• infer

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reject
• disbelieve
• doubt
• discredit
• suspect
• question
• challenge
• distrust
• dispute
• mistrust
• misdoubt

4

as in to assume

to take to or upon oneself

accepted the responsibility of sending out the invitations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assume
• shoulder
• undertake
• bear
• embrace
• adopt
• take over
• endorse
• acquiesce
• accede
• agree
• uphold
• indorse
• take up
• advocate
• support
• stand by
• espouse
• consent
• assent
• back
• champion
• reaccept
• reassume

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refuse
• withdraw
• repudiate
• reject
• renounce
• disavow
• disclaim
• disown
• retract
• recant
• take back
• abjure
• spurn
• avoid
• decline
• turn down
• refrain (from)
• forbear
• abstain (from)
• relinquish
• abandon
• bypass
• surrender
• forsake
• unsay
• give up
• detour
• backtrack
• back down
• back off
• abnegate

5

as in to endure

to put up with (something painful or difficult)

he accepted all of life's vicissitudes without complaint

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tolerate
• endure
• handle
• stand
• take
• sustain
• bear
• absorb
• abide
• meet
• swallow
• stomach
• support
• wear
• stand for
• countenance
• live with
• stick out
• lump (it)
• go
• bide
• suffer
• hack
• allow
• brook
• sweat out
• permit
• tough it out
• pocket
• acquiesce
• reconcile (to)
• capitulate
• respect
• agree (with or to)
• submit (to)
• yield (to)
• consent (to)
• assent (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refuse
• reject
• dismiss
• decline
• resist
• repudiate
• oppose
• avoid
• fight
• combat
• escape
• spurn
• contest
• turn down
• miss
• evade
• circumvent
• bypass
• refrain (from)
• elude
• dodge
• forbear
• abstain (from)

accepting

2 of 3

adjective

1

as in believing

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in approving

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

3

as in resigned

Synonyms & Similar 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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• 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

3 of 3

verb (2)

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
• okaying
• 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
• objecting (to)
• spurning
• vetoing
• turning down
• withstanding
• fighting
• negativing
• combating
• contesting
• combatting
• 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
• approving (of)
• subscribing (to)
• applauding
• liking
• going for
• enjoying
• okaying
• countenancing
• holding with
• caring (for)
• sustaining
• praising
• upholding
• taking kindly to
• saluting
• recommending
• 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
• setting store on
• 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
• indorsing
• 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
• combating
• avoiding
• contesting
• turning down
• combatting
• missing
• escaping
• spurning
• evading
• bypassing
• circumventing
• dodging
• eluding
• refraining (from)
• abstaining (from)
• forbearing