Definition of Acceptive

1. Adjective. Inclined to accept rather than reject. "She was seldom acceptive of my suggestions"

Similar to: Accepting
Derivative terms: Accept
Antonyms: Rejective

2. Adjective. Accepting willingly. "An acceptant type of mind"
Exact synonyms: Acceptant
Similar to: Open, Receptive
Derivative terms: Accept, Accept, Acceptance, Acceptance, Acceptance, Accept

Definition of Acceptive

1. a. Fit for acceptance.

Definition of Acceptive

1. Adjective. Fit for acceptance. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: obsolete) Ready to accept. ¹

3. Adjective. Receptive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Acceptive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acceptive

acceptedly
acceptee
acceptees
accepter
accepters
acceptest
accepteth
acceptilation
acceptilations
accepting
acceptingly
acceptingness
acceptingnesses
acception
acceptions
acceptive
acceptor
acceptor RNA
acceptor control
acceptor site
acceptor splicing site
acceptors
acceptour
accepts
acces pernicieux
access code
access codes
access control
access control list

Literary usage of Acceptive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Accepted, or agreed upon. ACCESS. Accented on the first syllable. But myself will vac acceptive darts, And arm against him. Chapman, II., vii, 84 I did ..."

2. The Chinese and Their Rebellions: Viewed in Connection with Their National by Thomas Taylor Meadows (1856)
"The acceptive mazi, who deals Vith a subject for a lifetime without ever seeing its blemishes or its needs, is not likely to originate alterations or ..."

3. The Rhetoric of Aristotle by Aristotle, Edward Meredith Cope, John Edwin Sandys (1877)
"Trendelenburg, who takes nothing into account but the possible meanings of the dative (or, as he rightly prefers to call it, the 'acceptive') case, ..."

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