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REJECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does reject mean?
• REJECT (noun)
The noun REJECT has 1 sense:
1. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
Familiarity information: REJECT used as a noun is very rare.
• REJECT (verb)
The verb REJECT has 7 senses:
1. refuse to accept or acknowledge
3. deem wrong or inappropriate
5. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
6. refuse entrance or membership
7. dismiss from consideration or a contest
Familiarity information: REJECT used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
cull; reject
Hypernyms ("reject" is a kind of...):
deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)
Derivation:
reject (reject with contempt)
reject (refuse entrance or membership)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: rejected
Past participle: rejected
-ing form: rejecting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refuse to accept or acknowledge
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
The journal rejected the student's paper
Hypernyms (to "reject" is one way to...):
evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reject"):
disbelieve; discredit (reject as false; refuse to accept)
repudiate (refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid)
recuse (challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law)
reprobate (reject (documents) as invalid)
disown; renounce; repudiate (cast off)
brush aside; brush off; discount; dismiss; disregard; ignore; push aside (bar from attention or consideration)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Antonym:
accept (consider or hold as true)
Derivation:
rejection (the act of rejecting something)
rejective (rejecting or tending to reject)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Refuse to accept
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
decline; pass up; refuse; reject; turn down
Context example:
He refused my offer of hospitality
Verb group:
disdain; freeze off; pooh-pooh; reject; scorn; spurn; turn down (reject with contempt)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reject"):
dishonor; dishonour (refuse to accept)
bounce (refuse to accept and send back)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
Sentence example:
They reject the money
Derivation:
rejection (the act of rejecting something)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Deem wrong or inappropriate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
disapprove; reject
Context example:
I disapprove of her child rearing methods
Hypernyms (to "reject" is one way to...):
evaluate; judge; pass judgment (form a critical opinion of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reject"):
object (express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent)
deprecate (express strong disapproval of; deplore)
deter; discourage (try to prevent; show opposition to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
rejection (the act of rejecting something)
rejective (rejecting or tending to reject)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Reject with contempt
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
disdain; freeze off; pooh-pooh; reject; scorn; spurn; turn down
Context example:
She spurned his advances
Hypernyms (to "reject" is one way to...):
decline; refuse (show unwillingness towards)
Verb group:
decline; pass up; refuse; reject; turn down (refuse to accept)
refuse; reject; turn away; turn down (refuse entrance or membership)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reject"):
rebuff; repel; snub (reject outright and bluntly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
reject (the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality)
rejective (rejecting or tending to reject)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
His body rejected the liver of the donor
Hypernyms (to "reject" is one way to...):
react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Refuse entrance or membership
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
refuse; reject; turn away; turn down
Context example:
Black people were often rejected by country clubs
Verb group:
disdain; freeze off; pooh-pooh; reject; scorn; spurn; turn down (reject with contempt)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Antonym:
admit (allow to enter; grant entry to)
Derivation:
reject (the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Dismiss from consideration or a contest
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
eliminate; reject; rule out; winnow out
Context example:
This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
Most people have had the experience of wanting to minimize the hurt of the person they are rejecting.
(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It is also used to treat GVHD and after a kidney transplant to help keep the body from rejecting the kidney.
(Anti-Thymocyte Globulin, NCI Dictionary)
It had been rejected right and left by the magazines.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I tried to comfort her on this point, but she rejected consolation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Like him, she had tried the scheme and rejected it; but such an alternative as this had not occurred to her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A drug used to keep a patient from rejecting a transplanted kidney.
(Azathioprine sodium, NCI Dictionary)
If you have a transplant, you must take drugs for the rest of your life, to keep your body from rejecting the new kidney.
(Kidney Transplantation, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
But you do not reject me, Maude?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
People who have transplants must take drugs to keep their body from rejecting the new pancreas for the rest of their lives.
(Pancreas Transplantation, NIH)
If you have a transplant, you must take drugs the rest of your life to help keep your body from rejecting the new organ.
(Organ Transplantation, NIH)
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