reject
/'ri:dʤekt/
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Definition
Noun:
- A person or thing that is not accepted or is set aside because it is considered inferior, unsatisfactory, or unsuitable.
Verb:
- To refuse to accept, consider, or agree to something.
- To dismiss or turn down an offer, proposal, idea, or person.
- To fail to accept or integrate something, such as an organ in a medical transplant.
- To discard or cast aside as not meeting a required standard.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- The factory sorted the products, separating the rejects from the perfect ones.
- He felt like a reject after not being chosen for the team.
Verb:
- The committee decided to reject the proposal due to a lack of funding.
- She had to reject the job offer because it required relocation.
- His body rejected the transplanted kidney.
- The editor will reject any manuscript that does not meet our guidelines.
Advanced Usage
"to reject out of hand": To dismiss something immediately without serious consideration.
- The manager rejected the suggestion out of hand, which discouraged the team.
"to reject the notion/idea that...": To firmly disagree with or refuse to accept a specific concept.
- I reject the notion that success is only measured by wealth.
Variants and Related Words
Rejection (n): The act of rejecting or the state of being rejected.
- Facing rejection is a common part of the application process.
Rejective (adj): Tending to reject. (Less common)
- Rejector (n): One who or that which rejects.
Synonyms
- Verb: Refuse, decline, turn down, repudiate, spurn, veto, dismiss.
- Noun: Castoff, discard, second, failure.
Antonyms
- Verb: Accept, approve, welcome, embrace, choose, select.
- Noun: Accept, keeper.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(Note: "Reject" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. The action is typically expressed by the verb alone or with a direct object.)
Related Idioms
- "Don't reject it until you've tried it.": A saying advising against dismissing something without first experiencing it.
- "The mind rejects what it cannot comprehend.": A proverb suggesting people often dismiss ideas they do not understand.
Noun
- the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
Verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi
- This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration
- refuse entrance or membership
- They turned away hundreds of fans
- Black people were often rejected by country clubs
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- His body rejected the liver of the donor
- reject with contempt
- She spurned his advances
- deem wrong or inappropriate
- I disapprove of her child rearing methods
- refuse to accept
- He refused my offer of hospitality
- refuse to accept or acknowledge
- I reject the idea of starting a war
- The journal rejected the student's paper