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
Words Nearby reject
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How to use reject in a sentence
Testing thousands of molecules during high-speed automated experiments, she plucked one of the compounds out of the reject column and moved it into the group that warranted further study.
The Download: US-built EV batteries, and California’s monkeypox emergency | Rhiannon Williams | August 2, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewThen I glanced at the second book and woefully added it to the reject pile.
How to take an overnight trip with your two-wheeled vehicle | Melanie D.G. Kaplan | March 26, 2021 | Washington Post“I firmly and wholeheartedly reject the allegations,” Hawking said from a Cambridge Hospital.
The Other Side of Stephen Hawking: Strippers, Aliens, and Disturbing Abuse Claims | Marlow Stern | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs 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?
Martin Amis Talks About Nazis, Novels, and Cute Babies | Ronald K. Fried | October 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
His Mormon faith was no reason to reject his candidacy, he argued.
It’s Official: Religion Doesn’t Make You More Moral | Elizabeth Picciuto | September 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI 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!
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterNo man would reject the words of God if he knew that God spoke those words.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordAgain, a principal cannot accept part of an agent's act and reject the remainder.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesIf eager to get the most possible, she would reject the gift of money and claim her dower rights.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesEarly stages of great grief reject comfort, but they long, with intense longing, for sympathy.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence Hartley
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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