1. Receive willingly something given or offered
   "Please accept my present";
   - take, have
    
2. Give an affirmative reply to; respond favourably to
   "I cannot accept your invitation";
   - consent, go for
    
3. Consider or hold as true
   "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
    
4. React favourably to; consider right and proper
   "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
    
5. Admit into a group or community
   "accept students for graduate study";
   - admit, take, take on
    
6. Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
   "I'll accept the charges";
   - bear, take over, assume
    
7. Tolerate or accommodate oneself to
   "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions";
   - live with, swallow
    
8. Make use of or accept for some purpose
   "accept a risk";
   - take
    
9. Receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
   "The board accepted the annual financial statement"
    
10. Be designed to hold or take
    "This surface will not accept the dye";
    - take
     
11. Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
    "The cow accepted the bull"

Sounds like: except

Derived forms: accepts, accepting, accepted

Type of: abide, accommodate, acquire, act, bear, brook, digest, endure, evaluate, fit, get, have, judge, move, pass judgment, put up, react, receive, reply, respond, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, suit, support, take, tolerate

Antonym: decline, reject

Encyclopedia: Accept