Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of.
- v. To refuse to consider or grant; deny.
- v. To refuse to recognize or give affection to (a person).
- v. To discard as defective or useless; throw away. See Synonyms at refuse1.
- v. To spit out or vomit.
- v. Medicine To resist immunologically the introduction of (a transplanted organ or tissue); fail to accept as part of one's own body.
- n. One that has been rejected: a reject from the varsity team; a tire that is a reject.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To throw or cast back.
- To throw away, as anything undesirable or useless; cast off; discard: as, to pick out the good and reject the bad; to reject a lover.
- To refuse to receive; decline haughtily or harshly; slight; despise.
- Synonyms To throw aside, cast off. See refuse.
- n. That which is rejected or thrown out; a cull; specifically, in prehistoric archæol., an unfinished stone implement, spoiled or broken in the process of manufacture.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive to refuse to accept
- v. sports to block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- n. Something that is rejected.
- n. derogatory slang An unpopular person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
- v. To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
- v. To refuse to grant.
WordNet 3.0
- v. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- v. refuse to accept or acknowledge
- v. reject with contempt
- v. refuse entrance or membership
- v. deem wrong or inappropriate
- n. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- v. refuse to accept
- v. dismiss from consideration or a contest
Etymologies
- From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēiectus, past participle of rēicere, "to throw back", from rē-, back, + iacere, to throw. Displaced native Middle English forwerpen ("to reject") (from Old English forweorpan), Middle English forcasten ("to reject, throw away") (from Old Norse forkasta), Middle English skirpen ("to reject, spew out") (from Old Norse skirpa ("to reject, spit out")), Middle English wernen ("to refuse, reject") (from Old English wiernan ("to refuse, reject")), Middle English withchosen, withchesen ("to reject, choose against") (from Old English wiþċēosan ("to reject")). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēicere, rēiect- : re-, re- + iacere, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In my humble opinion the reject is a better comic but maybe it does not get the point across as well.”
“What a lot of people will reject is any proposal that they think includes anything that smacks of an “amnesty” or a reward to people who have broken the law because they assume – based on experience with the 1986 law – that it will just encourage even more people to break the law in anticipation of another amnesty.”
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“But what I reject is when some folks are on the sidelines and root for failure on health care ... or they root for failure on getting the Olympics.”
“I am willing to wager finding 50 votes to reject is doable. (you have to count Biden) However finding that 51st is going to be monumental.”
“The big thing you reject is that, in the place in question, the Palestinians were there in the first place.”
“Sure, he looks like an reject from the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory but nerds are so in right now.”
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“Republicans once again reject their own ideas in their efforts to screw over Obama.”
“As for Plugged In Online, the only comment I reject, that I think all three of us here would reject, is the casual statement that Christians '"better judgment" would "normally push vampire flicks out of bounds.”
“What I reject is the idea – the idea that I think underscores and gives the term ‘MILF’ its force – that mothers, as a group, are ordinarily so obviously unf*ckable that society needs a whole separate category and term for mothers who escape that norm.”
“What we reject is the current status of our politics, not the notion of politics.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘reject’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
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Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
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Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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Learned words
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Words I like!
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doghouse
sequester, quarantine, isolate, exile, shun, expel, banish, exclude, outlaw, outcast, ignore, cast out and 29 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 152
cannonball, blow away, improbable, hardened, handicapper, regarded, defiance, obstacle, destined, cargo, cargo plane, Caracas and 49 more...
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