comes to terms

Makes one's peace

Comes to terms means reaching acceptance or agreement after difficulty.

You come to terms with a loss, a diagnosis, or an uncomfortable truth—gradually accepting what you initially resisted: It took years to come to terms with her father's death.

In negotiation, to come to terms is to reach agreement: The two sides finally came to terms on a price.

Related

reach agreement · forgiveness · emotional healing · acclimatization · acquiescence · closure · mediation · flexibility · resolution · consensus · making peace · peace · inner peace · accommodation · understanding · modification · arbitration · reconciliation

Opposites
psychological acceptance

comes to termsdenies

Declares something untrue

resists · rejects · represses · suppresses · clings to

negotiation/agreement

comes to termsdeadlocks

Unresolvable standstill situations

stalemates · walks away · digs in · holds out · balks

acceptance vs. rejection

comes to termsdenies

Declares something untrue

rejects · disavows · repudiates · dismisses · ignores

Family

come, comes, coming, term, terms, termed, terming, terminal, terminate

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