accept

1. 1.

   consider or hold as true

   “I cannot accept the dogma of this church”

   “accept an argument”

   Antonymsreject

   Broaderevaluate

   Narroweracknowledgeespousebelievereceiveapprobateresigntake a bowrespect
2. 2.

   receive willingly something given or offered

   “The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter”

   “I won't have this dog in my house!”

   “Please accept my present”

   Synonymstakehave

   Antonymsrefuse

   Broaderget

   Narrowerwelcomehonoradopt
3. 3.

   give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to

   “I cannot accept your invitation”

   “I go for this resolution”

   Synonymsconsentgo for

   Antonymsrefuse

   Broaderreact

   Narrowergiveagreesettlecontract inpermityieldundertake
4. 4.

   react favorably to; consider right and proper

   “People did not accept atonal music at that time”

   “We accept the idea of universal health care”

   Broaderreact
5. 5.

   admit into a group or community

   “accept students for graduate study”

   “We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member”

   Synonymsadmittaketake on

   Narrowerprofess
6. 6.

   take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person

   “I'll accept the charges”

   “She agreed to bear the responsibility”

   Synonymsbeartake overassume

   Broadertake

   Narrowerface the music
7. 7.

   tolerate or accommodate oneself to

   “I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions”

   “I swallowed the insult”

   “She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies”

   Synonymslive withswallow

   Broaderdigest
8. 8.

   be designed to hold or take

   “This surface will not take the dye”

   Synonymstake

   Broaderbe
9. 9.

   receive (a report) officially, as from a committee

   Broaderreceive
10. 10.

    make use of or accept for some purpose

    “take a risk”

    “take an opportunity”

    Synonymstake

    Narrowerco-opt
11. 11.

    be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal

    “The cow accepted the bull”

    Broaderreact

Other forms of accept

past tense

accepted·

present participle

accepting·

third person

accepts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accept

What does accept mean?

accept means "consider or hold as true". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accept?

accept has 2 syllables: ac-cept. The stress falls on "cept". In IPA it is /ækˈsɛpt/.

What is another word for accept?

Close synonyms include take, have, consent, go for, admit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of accept?

The recorded antonyms are reject, refuse, refuse.

Is accept a common word?

accept is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with accept?

4 words rhyme with accept. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.