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reject
[ verb ri-jekt; noun ree-jekt ]
verb (used with object)
- to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.:
to reject the offer of a better job.
Synonyms: deny
- to refuse to grant (a request, demand, etc.).
Synonyms: deny
- to refuse to accept (someone or something); rebuff:
The other children rejected him. The publisher rejected the author's latest novel.
- to discard as useless or unsatisfactory:
The mind rejects painful memories.
- to cast out or eject; vomit.
- to cast out or off.
- Medicine/Medical. (of a human or other animal) to have an immunological reaction against (a transplanted organ or grafted tissue):
If tissue types are not matched properly, a patient undergoing a transplant will reject the graft.
noun
- something rejected, as an imperfect article.
Synonyms: second
reject
verb
- to refuse to accept, acknowledge, use, believe, etc
- to throw out as useless or worthless; discard
- to rebuff (a person)
- (of an organism) to fail to accept (a foreign tissue graft or organ transplant) because of immunological incompatibility
noun
- something rejected as imperfect, unsatisfactory, or useless
Derived Forms
- reˈjective, adjective
- reˈjection, noun
- reˈjectable, adjective
- reˈjecter, noun
Other Words From
- re·jecta·ble adjective
- re·jecter noun
- re·jective adjective
- prere·ject verb (used with object)
- quasi-re·jected adjective
- unre·jecta·ble adjective
- unre·jected adjective
- unre·jective adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of reject1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“I firmly and wholeheartedly reject the allegations,” Hawking said from a Cambridge Hospital.
As Assaf put it, “this is one way to reject extremism and make it so the people are not afraid.”
And I was wondering how you combat that impulse to reject the young?
His Mormon faith was no reason to reject his candidacy, he argued.
I reject angrily authority that exists without my respect.
If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!
No man would reject the words of God if he knew that God spoke those words.
Again, a principal cannot accept part of an agent's act and reject the remainder.
If eager to get the most possible, she would reject the gift of money and claim her dower rights.
Early stages of great grief reject comfort, but they long, with intense longing, for sympathy.
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