The antonyms for the phrase "are accepted" are "are denied", "are refused", "are rejected", "are declined", "are disapproved", and "are repudiated". These antonyms denote the opposite meaning of "are accepted", which means to be approved or agreed to by someone. When something is denied or refused, it is not acknowledged, authorized, or granted by someone in authority. Rejected or declined denotes that something is deemed unsuitable or unworthy, and thus is not accepted. Disapproved or repudiated means disliking or opposing something, resulting in its non-acceptance. These antonyms provide a range of options for expressing negation or refusal of acceptance.

What are the antonyms for Are accepted?

• v.

  • rate
  • disqualify
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  • fail
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  • lose
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Famous quotes with Are accepted

• My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

  R. Buckminster Fuller
• All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

  Janet Erskine Stuart
• Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

  Polly Toynbee
• Each nation has its own pet sins to which it is merciful, and also sins which it treats as most abhorrent. In America, we are peculiarly sensitive about big money contributions for which the donors expect any reward. In England, where in some ways the standard is higher than here, such contributions are accepted as a matter of course, nay, as one of the methods by which wealthy men obtain peerages. It would be well-nigh an impossibility for a man to secure a seat in the United States Senate by mere campaign contributions, in the way that seats in the British House of Lords have often been secured without any scandal being caused thereby.

  Theodore Roosevelt
• An old fairy tale has it that science began with the rejection of superstition. In fact it was the rejection of rationalism that gave birth to scientific inquiry. Ancient and medieval thinkers believed the world could be understood by applying first principles. Modern science begins when observation and experiment come first, and the results are accepted even when what they show seems to be impossible.

  John Gray (philosopher)

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