acceptive

[ak-sep-tiv]

ac·cep·tive

[ak-sep-tiv]
adjective
1.
inclined to receive or accept; receptive: She was seldom acceptive of my suggestions.
2.
reasonably satisfactory; acceptable: an acceptive mode of transportation.

Origin:
1590–1600; accept + -ive, on the model of receptive
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Acceptive is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
WordNet
acceptive

adjective
1. inclined to accept rather than reject; "she was seldom acceptive of my suggestions" [ant: rejective
2. accepting willingly; "acceptive of every new idea"; "an acceptant type of mind" 
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