Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unaccept
Participle: unaccepted
Gerund: unaccepting
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | unaccept |
| you | unaccept |
| he;she;it | unaccepts |
| we | unaccept |
| you | unaccept |
| they | unaccept |
Perfect
| I | have unaccepted |
| you | have unaccepted |
| he;she;it | has unaccepted |
| we | have unaccepted |
| you | have unaccepted |
| they | have unaccepted |
Past
| I | unaccepted |
| you | unaccepted |
| he;she;it | unaccepted |
| we | unaccepted |
| you | unaccepted |
| they | unaccepted |
Pluperfect
| I | had unaccepted |
| you | had unaccepted |
| he;she;it | had unaccepted |
| we | had unaccepted |
| you | had unaccepted |
| they | had unaccepted |
Future
| I | will unaccept |
| you | will unaccept |
| he;she;it | will unaccept |
| we | will unaccept |
| you | will unaccept |
| they | will unaccept |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unaccepted |
| you | will have unaccepted |
| he;she;it | will have unaccepted |
| we | will have unaccepted |
| you | will have unaccepted |
| they | will have unaccepted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unaccept |
| you | unaccept |
| he;she;it | unaccept |
| we | unaccept |
| you | unaccept |
| they | unaccept |
Perfect
| I | have unaccepted |
| you | have unaccepted |
| he;she;it | have unaccepted |
| we | have unaccepted |
| you | have unaccepted |
| they | have unaccepted |
Imperfect
| I | unaccepted |
| you | unaccepted |
| he;she;it | unaccepted |
| we | unaccepted |
| you | unaccepted |
| they | unaccepted |
Pluperfect
| I | had unaccepted |
| you | had unaccepted |
| he;she;it | had unaccepted |
| we | had unaccepted |
| you | had unaccepted |
| they | had unaccepted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unaccept |
| you | would unaccept |
| he;she;it | would unaccept |
| we | would unaccept |
| you | would unaccept |
| they | would unaccept |
Perfect
| I | would have unaccepted |
| you | would have unaccepted |
| he;she;it | would have unaccepted |
| we | would have unaccepted |
| you | would have unaccepted |
| they | would have unaccepted |
Imperative
| you | unaccept |
| we | Let's unaccept |
| you | unaccept |
Verbs conjugated like 'unaccept'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'unaccept'
unaccent,
accept,
reaccept,
accent,
deaccent,
incept,
reaccent,
unache,
unaffect,
unarrest,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder.
5. Proto-Germanic *anda-
6. Proto-West Germanic *anda-
7. Old English and-
8. Old English on-
9. Middle English on-
10. English un-
11. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
12. Proto-Italic *ad
13. Proto-Italic *ad-
14. Latin ad-
15. substratebor.?
16. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
17. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
18. Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
19. Proto-Italic *kapjō
20. Old Latin kapiō
21. Latin capiō
22. Latin accipiō
23. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
24. Proto-Italic *-tos
25. Latin -tus
26. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
27. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
28. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
29. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
30. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
31. Proto-Italic *-ājō
32. Proto-Italic *-āō
33. Latin -ō
34. Latin -tō
35. Latin acceptārelbor.
36. Old French accepterder.?
37. Middle English accepten
38. English accept
39. English unaccept
40. From un- + accept.
Sample Sentences
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Mr. Hurst interrupted, 'to have his name mixed up with shady people, as Ormond says; so, my dear! the long and short of it is, you must refuse her invitation to go there on this visit!' 'But I have accepted it.' 'Unaccept it then,' jocosely. [1880, Mrs. Harry Bennett-Edwards, In Sheep's Clothing, volume 2, page 154:]
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According to Spinoza's view, comprehension automatically entails acceptance, and only afterward is the mind able to proceed to unaccept the statement. [1993, Sik Hung Ng, James J. Bradac, Power in language: verbal communication and social influence:]
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The rest of the world hasn't accepted his argument, but also the rest of the world has never been able to unaccept it, so it is fairly safe to say that it is the world's greatest argument, whether it is valid or not. [1996, Albert Lamphier Hammond, Theory of knowledge: a direct realist approach, page 255:]
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Of course, they were free to unaccept that idea, but unacceptance was a secondary, deliberate revision of an initially accepted belief. [1998, Michael Raymond DePaul, William M. Ramsey, Rethinking intuition: the psychology of intuition, page 49:]
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I got this offer in California about an hour after I accepted Rosenfeld's job, so I called him right back. I was calling him about two or three hours after I'd accepted the job — to unaccept it. He was absolutely outraged. [2000, James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfeld, Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks, page 369:]
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In line with Gilbert's writings (1993; Gilbert, Krull, & Malone, 1990), if students lack the motivation or mental ability to "unaccept" the information they have encoded in order to pass my exams, they cannot escape believing it. [2008, Michael F. Shaughnessy, Meta-cognition: A Recent Review of Research, Theory, and Perspectives:]
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Her department had to decide which of the students would be “unaccepted.” Dr. Roth, chair of graduate education, was chosen to explain those decisions to them. [2025 March 6, Stephanie Saul, “As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]