Accepting
Believing
Synonyms Believing, convinced, trusting, secure, certain, sure, trustful, naïve, childlike, guileless, naive, dependent, reliant, gullable, unquestioning, confident, unsuspecting, overconfident, unsuspicious, confiding, unwary, gullible, credulous, unsophisticated, artless, hopeful, innocent, and simple.
Approving
Synonyms Approving, positive, appreciative, complimentary, supportive, flattering, respectful, laudatory, hagiographical, hagiographic, good, worshiping, praiseful, worshipful, adulatory, idolizing, warm, favorable, admiring, friendly, commendatory, applauding, sympathetic, eulogistic, encomiastic, approbatory, panegyrical, adoring, worshipping, laudative, advisory, and recommendatory.
Resigned
Synonyms Resigned, cynical, grieving, dismal, discouraged, wailing, disappointed, comfortless, desolate, desperate, dispirited, depressed, sad, disconsolate, crestfallen, hangdog, sorrowful, blue, mournful, doleful, glum, woebegone, melancholy, woeful, brokenhearted, inconsolable, low, forlorn, heartsore, pessimistic, depressing, bleak, cheerless, weeping, abject, dark, funereal, unhappy, dreary, despairing, disheartened, drear, dejected, downcast, saddened, heartbroken, miserable, sorry, hopeless, gloomy, joyless, down, despondent, heartsick, wretched, downhearted, and low-spirited.
Having
Synonyms Having, adopting, tolerating, ratifying, embracing, consenting (to), okaying, swallowing, assenting (to), conceding (to), succumbing (to), bowing (to), countenancing, acquiescing (to), shouldering, giving in (to), brooking, OK'ing, bearing, taking, confirming, sanctioning, welcoming, warranting, supporting, acceding (to), submitting (to), sustaining, yielding (to), standing, surrendering (to), enduring, abiding, capitulating (to), sticking out, stomaching, and sweating out.
Tolerating
Synonyms Tolerating, favoring, subscribing (to), liking, enjoying, countenancing, caring (for), praising, taking kindly to, recommending, OK'ing, commending, acclaiming, concurring (in), assenting (to), supporting, approving (of), applauding, going for, okaying, holding with, sustaining, upholding, saluting, lauding, enduring, standing by, backing (up), consenting (to), and bearing.
Believing
Synonyms Believing, understanding, buying, crediting, setting store on, accrediting, setting store by, inferring, concluding, taking, trusting, swallowing, accounting, assuming, presuming, deducing, and supposing.
Assuming
Synonyms Assuming, bearing, undertaking, taking over, advocating, acquiescing, indorsing, assenting, championing, backing, standing by, reaccepting, shouldering, embracing, adopting, endorsing, supporting, upholding, consenting, agreeing, acceding, taking up, espousing, and reassuming.
Tolerating
Synonyms Tolerating, standing, taking, bearing, supporting, stomaching, meeting, pocketing, sticking out, standing for, biding, lumping (it), suffering, permitting, toughing it out, acquiescing, submitting (to), capitulating, consenting (to), handling, enduring, sustaining, absorbing, swallowing, abiding, wearing, living with, countenancing, hacking, going, brooking, allowing, sweating out, respecting, reconciling (to), yielding (to), agreeing (with or to), and assenting (to).
Example Sentences
She is accepting the award on stage.
He’s having trouble accepting the truth.
They are accepting applications until Friday.
I’m accepting the offer after much thought.
We’re accepting donations for the cause.
She’s slowly accepting her new life.
The store is now accepting credit cards.
He’s accepting responsibility for his actions.
They are accepting new members this month.
I’m accepting that things won’t be the same.