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Definition of Acceptive
1. Adjective. Inclined to accept rather than reject. "She was seldom acceptive of my suggestions"
2. Adjective. Accepting willingly. "An acceptant type of mind"
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
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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