REJECT

cull, reject

(noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

reject

(verb) refuse to accept or acknowledge; “I reject the idea of starting a war”; “The journal rejected the student’s paper”

reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down

(verb) reject with contempt; “She spurned his advances”

disapprove, reject

(verb) deem wrong or inappropriate; “I disapprove of her child rearing methods”

refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline

(verb) refuse to accept; “He refused my offer of hospitality”

reject, turn down, turn away, refuse

(verb) refuse entrance or membership; “They turned away hundreds of fans”; “Black people were often rejected by country clubs”

resist, reject, refuse

(verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; “His body rejected the liver of the donor”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

reject (third-person singular simple present rejects, present participle rejecting, simple past and past participle rejected)

(transitive) To refuse to accept.

(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

To refuse a romantic advance.

Synonyms

• (refuse to accept): decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny

Antonyms

• (refuse to accept): accept, take up

Noun

reject (plural rejects)

Something that is rejected.

(derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

(colloquial) a rejected defective product in a production line

Synonyms

• (something that is rejected): castaway

• (an unpopular person): outcast, castaway, alien

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*ject" (r-jkt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Rejecting.] Etym: [L. rejectus, p. p. of reicere, rejicere; pref. re- re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. See Jet a shooting forth.]

1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4.

2. To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate. That golden scepter which thou didst reject. Milton. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me. Hog. iv. 6.

3. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

Syn.

– To repel; renounce; discard; rebuff; refuse; decline.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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