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reject

[ verb ri-jekt; noun ree-jekt ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.:

    to reject the offer of a better job.

    Synonyms: deny

  2. to refuse to grant (a request, demand, etc.).

    Synonyms: deny

  3. to refuse to accept (someone or something); rebuff:

    The other children rejected him. The publisher rejected the author's latest novel.

    Synonyms: renounce, repel

  4. to discard as useless or unsatisfactory:

    The mind rejects painful memories.

    Synonyms: jettison, eliminate

  5. to cast out or eject; vomit.
  6. to cast out or off.
  7. 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.



noun

  1. something rejected, as an imperfect article.

    Synonyms: second

reject

verb

  1. to refuse to accept, acknowledge, use, believe, etc
  2. to throw out as useless or worthless; discard
  3. to rebuff (a person)
  4. (of an organism) to fail to accept (a foreign tissue graft or organ transplant) because of immunological incompatibility


noun

  1. something rejected as imperfect, unsatisfactory, or useless

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Derived Forms

  • reˈjecter, noun
  • reˈjective, adjective
  • reˈjectable, adjective
  • reˈjection, noun

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Other Words From

  • 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of reject1

First recorded in 1485–95; (verb) from Latin rējectus, past participle of rējicere “to throw back,” equivalent to re- re- + jec-, combining form of jacere “to throw” + -tus past participle suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of reject1

C15: from Latin rēicere to throw back, from re- + jacere to hurl

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Example Sentences

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.

Then I glanced at the second book and woefully added it to the reject pile.

“I firmly and wholeheartedly reject the allegations,” Hawking said from a Cambridge Hospital.

As 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?

His Mormon faith was no reason to reject his candidacy, he argued.

I 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!

No man would reject the words of God if he knew that God spoke those words.

Again, a principal cannot accept part of an agent's act and reject the remainder.

If eager to get the most possible, she would reject the gift of money and claim her dower rights.

Early stages of great grief reject comfort, but they long, with intense longing, for sympathy.

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