What are the opposite words for accepting?
The word "accepting" implies a willingness to receive, embrace, or acknowledge something. Antonyms for the term include rejecting, refusing, repudiating, declining, disavowing, dismissing, and disapproving. Rejecting is to turn down or deny something. Refusing is to decline an offer or request. Repudiating is to reject the validity of something. Declining is to politely refuse something. Disavowing is to disclaim association with something. Dismissing is to reject the importance or relevance of something. Disapproving is to express negative judgment towards something. In contrast to accepting, these antonyms convey a sense of resistance, opposition, or dissatisfaction with something.
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disobedient
- fractious,
- headstrong,
- nonobservant,
- wayward,
- non-compliant,
- head-strong,
- dis obedient,
- dis orderly,
- dis-obedient,
- dis-orderly,
- head strong,
- in subordinate,
- in tractable,
- in-subordinate,
- in-tractable,
- more nonobservant,
- most nonobservant,
- non compliant,
- non observant,
- non-observant,
- un compliant,
- un disciplined,
- un-compliant.
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narrow
- linear,
- scrimpy,
- Incapacious,
- de finite,
- de terminate,
- de-finite,
- de-terminate,
- in flexible,
- in-exorable,
- in-flexible,
- more attenuated,
- more circumscribed,
- more compressed,
- more confining,
- more constricted,
- more contracted,
- more incapacious,
- more linear,
- more pent,
- more pinched,
- more taper,
- more tapered,
- most attenuated,
- most circumscribed,
- most compressed,
- most confining,
- most constricted,
- most contracted,
- most incapacious,
- most linear,
- most pent,
- most pinched,
- most taper,
- most tapered,
- narrow minded,
- narrowminded,
- pre carious,
- pre-carious,
- scrimpiest,
- straiter,
- straitest,
- un generous,
- un-generous.
- snobbish
- dainty
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peevish
- splenetic,
- Fretting,
- waspy,
- grousing,
- illnatured,
- bad tempered,
- badtempered,
- fault finding,
- ill natured,
- more caviling,
- more cussed,
- more fretting,
- more grousing,
- more growling,
- more out of sorts,
- more out-of-sorts,
- more splenetic,
- more whining,
- most caviling,
- most cussed,
- most fretting,
- most grousing,
- most growling,
- most out of sorts,
- most out-of-sorts,
- most splenetic,
- most whining,
- ogrer,
- ogrest,
- out-of-sorts,
- short tempered,
- shorttempered,
- waspier,
- waspiest.
- delicate, fragile, fine
- defiant, mischievous
- confined, restricted
- irritable, testy
- choosy, finicky
- stuck-up, conceited
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Other relevant words
- rejective,
- abhorrent,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- adversary,
- angered,
- angry,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- apoplectic,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- ballistic,
- bullheaded,
- cheesed off,
- choleric,
- contemptuous,
- disdainful,
- dogged,
- flinty,
- foaming,
- froward,
- furious,
- hard,
- hard-nosed,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- harsh,
- headstrong,
- hostile,
- hot,
- implacable,
- incensed,
- inflamed,
- inflexible,
- infuriate,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- intolerant,
- intractable,
- intransigent,
- ireful,
- jaundiced,
- livid,
- mad,
- mortal,
- mulish,
- negative,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- ossified,
- outraged,
- pat,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- rabid,
- ramrod,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- rejective,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- riled,
- roiled,
- scornful,
- self-opinionated,
- severe,
- shirty,
- sore,
- steaming,
- stern,
- stiff-necked,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- tough,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- uncontrollable,
- unfriendly,
- ungovernable,
- unmanageable,
- unrelenting,
- unruly,
- unsympathetic,
- untoward,
- unyielding,
- wayward,
- willful,
- wrathful,
- wroth,
- Horn-mad,
- Incontrollable,
- Inconvincible,
- adversarial,
- teed off,
- steamed up.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
hefemale
- Antonyms:
- shemale.
