Dictionary entry details
• ACCEPT (verb)
Meaning:
Consider or hold as true
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context examples:
I cannot accept the dogma of this church / accept an argument
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accept"):
acknowledge; know; recognise; recognize (accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority)
abide by; honor; honour; observe; respect (show respect towards)
take a bow (acknowledge praise or accept credit)
acknowledge (accept as legally binding and valid)
reconcile; resign; submit (accept as inevitable)
approbate (accept (documents) as valid)
receive (accept as true or valid)
believe (accept as true; take to be true)
adopt; embrace; espouse; sweep up (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Antonym:
reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)
Meaning:
Receive willingly something given or offered
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
accept; take; have
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accept"):
adopt; borrow; take over; take up (take up and practice as one's own)
honor; honour (accept as pay)
welcome (accept gladly)
accept; admit; take; take on (admit into a group or community)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Antonym:
refuse (refuse to accept)
Meaning:
Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
consent; go for; accept
Context examples:
I cannot accept your invitation / I go for this resolution
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accept"):
take in charge; undertake (accept as a charge)
buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield (consent reluctantly)
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
contract in (consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use)
settle (accept despite complete satisfaction)
agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)
give (consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
refuse (show unwillingness towards)
Meaning:
React favorably to; consider right and proper
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context examples:
People did not accept atonal music at that time / We accept the idea of universal health care
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Admit into a group or community
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
admit; take on; accept; take
Context examples:
accept students for graduate study / We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
accept; have; take (receive willingly something given or offered)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accept"):
profess (receive into a religious order or congregation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot accept Sue
Meaning:
Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
take over; assume; bear; accept
Context examples:
I'll accept the charges / She agreed to bear the responsibility
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
take (take into one's possession)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accept"):
carry-the can; face the music (accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Tolerate or accommodate oneself to
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
live with; accept; swallow
Context examples:
I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions / I swallowed the insult / She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
abide; bear; brook; digest; endure; put up; stand; stick out; stomach; suffer; support; tolerate (put up with something or somebody unpleasant)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Be designed to hold or take
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
accept; take
Context example:
This surface will not take the dye
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
have; receive (get something; come into possession of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make use of or accept for some purpose
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
accept; take
Context examples:
take a risk / take an opportunity
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accept"):
co-opt (take or assume for one's own use)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
The cow accepted the bull
Hypernyms (to "accept" is one way to...):
react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
