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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally agreed upon |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, acknowledged, allowed, approved, arrived at, authorized, card-carrying, chosen, confirmed, conventional, credited, current, customary, endorsed, established, fashionable, in vogue, kosher*, legit, normal, okayed, orthodox, passed, popular, preferred, received, recognized, regular, sanctioned, standard, straight*, time-honored, touted, universal, unopposed, usual, welcomed |
| Antonyms: | irregular, questionable, unconventional, unorthodox |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accept |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | allow into group |
| Synonyms: | admit, receive, welcome |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
| Antonyms: | blackball, decline, deny, reject |
| Main Entry: | accept |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe the goodness, realness of something |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, affirm, approbate, approve, buy*, countenance, fancy, favor, go for, hold, hold with, like, recognize, relish, swallow*, take as gospel truth, take stock in, trust |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
| Antonyms: | disagree, dispute, reject, renounce, repudiate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accept |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put up with |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, acquiesce, agree, assent, bear, bear with, bow, capitulate, defer to, don't make waves, don't rock the boat, endure, fit in, go along with, live with, play the game, recognize, respect, sit still for, stand, stand for, stomach, submit to, suffer, swallow, take, tolerate, yield to |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
| Antonyms: | demur, disallow, reject |
| Main Entry: | accept |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | receive by agreeing, consenting |
| Synonyms: | accede, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, affirm, agree to, approve, assent, assume, avow, bear, buy, check out*, comply, concur with, cooperate with, give stamp of approval, give the go-ahead, give the green light, give the nod, go for, lap up, okay, recognize, rubber-stamp, set store by, sign, sign off on, take on*, take one up on, thumbs up, undertake |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
| Antonyms: | decline, disagree, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accustomed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | normal, usual |
| Synonyms: | accepted, chronic, common, conventional, customary, established, everyday, expected, general, habitual, ordinary, orthodox, regular, routine, set, traditional, typical |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, unaccustomed, unusual |
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expected |
| Synonyms: | accepted, conjectured, connoted, counted on, given, granted, hypothesized, hypothetical, inferred, postulated, presumed, presupposed, supposed, suppositional, surmised, tacit, taken as known, taken for granted, understood |
| Antonyms: | unassumed, unexpected |
| Main Entry: | axiomatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understood; aphoristic |
| Synonyms: | absolute, accepted, aphoristic, apothegmatic, assumed, certain, fundamental, given, indubitable, manifest, obvious, presupposed, proverbial, self-evident, unquestioned |
| Antonyms: | misunderstood, questionable, uncertain |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
| Synonyms: | accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable |
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