swallow, Inf. buy, go for; assume, credit, regard, esteem, value; understand, absorb, apprehend, perceive, penetrate, recognize; construe, interpret, put a sense upon,
acceptable, adj. 1. worthy, deserving, competent, good enough; meritorious, estimable, praiseworthy, laudable, commendable, admirable, creditable; suitable, fit, seemly, proper, decorous; appropriate, apt, apposite, apropos; meet, due, just, right, fitting, befitting; timely, seasonable.
2. receivable, agreeable, welcome, gratifying, satisfying, pleasing; attractive, delightful, refreshing, pleasurable; inviting, desirable, likable, popular; impressive, prepossessing.
3. respectable, passable, tolerable, adequate, satisfactory, all right; presentable, admissible, fairly good, Inf.
- not that good, not too bad; fair, Inf no great shakes, mediocre, middling, indifferent, so-so; barely adequate, minimal, minimum, lowest acceptable,
acceptance, n. 1. accepting, taking, receipt, reception, recipience, acquisition.
2. approval, favor, approbation, affirmation, ratification, confirmation, recognition, acknowledgment, sanction; satisfaction, gratification.
3. assent to, belief in, compliance with, abidance by; submission to, acquiescence in, resignation to, tolerance of, toleration of.
4. All Commerce, bill, signed contract, endorsement, guarantee, agreement; order, draft, certification.
acceptation, n. 1. approval, favorable regard, cordial reception, adoption, admission, assent; acclamation, acclaim, favor, support, accord, acceptance.
2. belief, conviction, view, opinion; expectation, assumption, conception, idea, notion, presupposition; hypothesis, theory; inference, judgment, conclusion, certitude, certainty.
3. meaning, sense, import, drift, significance; implication, explanation, interpretation, construction, understanding; connotation, denotation.
accepted, adj. 1. approved, sanctioned, authorized, authentic; preferred, preferable; acceptable, allowable, allowed.
2. usual, customary, normal, expected, standard; conventional, traditional, time-honored; familiar, recognized, acknowledged, established, confirmed; fashionable, popular, current, in vogue,
access, n. 1. approachability, approachableness, accessibility; admittance, admission, right of entry, permission to enter; entrance, entry, entree, inlet, ingress; path, passage, adit, approach; way, means, road, route, course, avenue, street, highway.
2. attack, onset, fit, seizure, spasm, pang, Path, convulsion; spell, turn, bout, recurrence; outburst, outbreak, paroxysm, throe.
3. accession, succession, inheritance, assumption, taking on or over. See - accession (def. 1).
accessible, adj. 1. approachable, getatable, Inf come-at-able; easy, easy-going, familiar, informal; affable, genial, pleasant, cordial; sociable, friendly, companionable, congenial, complaisant; courteous, gracious, polite, civil; conversable, agreeable, obliging, compliant, bendable, willing.
2. reachable, attainable, obtainable, procurable; available, possible, conceivable, probable, likely; achievable, compassable, accomplishable.
3. open, wide-open, exposed, liable, subject, vulnerable, susceptible; defenseless, weak, assailable, attackable, unguarded, unprotected; easily influenced, influ-enceable, persuadable, manipulatable, manageable, passive.