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
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.
• (refuse to accept): decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny
• (refuse to accept): accept, take up
reject (plural rejects)
Something that is rejected.
(derogatory slang) An unpopular person.
(colloquial) a rejected defective product in a production line
• (something that is rejected): castaway
• (an unpopular person): outcast, castaway, alien
Source: Wiktionary
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
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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