ACCEPTS Synonyms: 191 Similar and Opposite Words

accepts

verb

Definition of accepts next

present tense third-person singular of accept

as in has

to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly some merchants in town will accept Canadian coins

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as in tolerates

to have a favorable opinion of her husband feels that he has never been truly accepted by his wife's family

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as in believes

to regard as right or true refused to accept that her friend had said those mean things

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as in assumes

to take to or upon oneself accepted the responsibility of sending out the invitations

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as in stands

to put up with (something painful or difficult) he accepted all of life's vicissitudes without complaint

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Recent Examples of accepts California law places the responsibility for sidewalks on the adjacent property owner, but Davis typically accepts responsibility for all repairs and replacements. —

Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026 Orbán's conduct has prompted a reexamination of how the EU accepts new members and monitors current ones. —

Sam McNeil, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2026 Orbán's conduct has prompted a reexamination of how the EU accepts new members and monitors current ones. —

ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026 From the fungus, the plant accepts scarce nitrogen and phosphorus that its own roots struggle to reach; the fungus takes the plant’s carbon to further grow and colonize the soil. —

Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026 And Amarantha accepts, then straddles him right there in the gazebo. —

Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026 The facility currently only accepts trash from municipalities, not individual residents. —

John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026 For those who are not able to give instruments, the conservatory accepts monetary donations to its instrument repair fund. —

Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026 Keliber still faces the prospects that low-cost Chinese imports could undercut its commercial potential unless Brussels accepts some form of demand-side support or risk-sharing. —

Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 30 Mar. 2026

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The park has a full-size soccer field, a sunken basketball court that doubles as a reservoir, a long wooden walkway raised above plantings and tall grasses, a community pavilion, a café, and a fifty-thousand-gallon cistern that captures rain for irrigation.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Messi, for example, has a lifetime deal with Adidas that will comfortably run into hundreds of millions of dollars, while Ronaldo signed a lifetime deal with Nike in 2016.

— Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026