reject
to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
to refuse to grant (a request, demand, etc.).
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.
something rejected, as an imperfect article.
Origin of reject
1synonym study For reject
Other words for reject
Other words from reject
- re·ject·a·ble, adjective
- re·ject·er, noun
- re·jec·tive, adjective
- pre·re·ject, verb (used with object)
- qua·si-re·ject·ed, adjective
- un·re·ject·a·ble, adjective
- un·re·ject·ed, adjective
- un·re·jec·tive, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for reject
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
something rejected as imperfect, unsatisfactory, or useless
Origin of reject
1Derived forms of reject
- rejectable, adjective
- rejecter or rejector, noun
- rejection, noun
- rejective, adjective
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