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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

willing to receive or accept something; to recognize or be considerate of others beliefs and characteristics;

e.g. It was an accepting household and they were happy to have anyone under their roof.

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Similar Words

Abiding

Absorbing

Assuming

Bearing

Enduring

Going

Handling

Laudatory

Meeting

Nonhostile

Praiseful

Reliant

Standing

Sustaining

Undertaking

Unquestioning

Well-behaved

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Opposite Words

Abhorrent

Adamant

Adamantine

Adversarial

Adversary

Anal

Anal-retentive

Angry

Antagonistic

Antipathetic

Apoplectic

Ascetic

Asceticism

Austere

Authoritarian

Ballistic

Barring

Beating

Bickering

Bouncing

Bullheaded

Carping

Challenging

Choleric

Confiding

Contemptuous

Contradicting

Damning

Deaf

Deprecating

Disdainful

Disparaging

Dissenting

Dogged

Falling-out

Fighting

Flinty

Froward

Furious

Growling

Grumbling

Hard

Hard-nosed

Hard-shell

Harsh

Headstrong

Heavy-handed

Hopping

Horn-mad

Hostile

Hot

Immovable

Impatient

Implacable

Inconvincible

Indignant

Indocile

Inflexible

Infuriate

Inhospitable

Inimical

Intolerant

Intractable

Intransigent

Irate

Jarring

Jaundiced

Livid

Loathing

Mad

Missing

Monkish

Mortal

Mulish

Nagging

Obdurate

Obstinate

Opinionated

Outing

Passing

Pat

Pertinacious

Perverse

Pigheaded

Rabid

Ramrod

Recalcitrant

Refractory

Retentive

Rigid

Rigorous

Riley

Rowing

Scornful

Screaming

Self-willed

Severe

Shipping

Shirty

Shooting

Skirting

Sore

Sorehead

Stern

Stiff-necked

Strict

Stubborn

Tough

Troubling

Unbending

Uncompromising

Uncontrollable

Unfriendly

Ungovernable

Unkind

Unmanageable

Unpunished

Unrelenting

Unruly

Unsympathetic

Untoward

Unyielding

Wayward

Willful

Worrying

Wrathful

Yawping

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