Rejection

//ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of rejecting. countable, uncountable

    "My offer was met with rejection"

  2. 2
    the act of rejecting something wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being rejected. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the speech act of rejecting wordnet
  5. 5
    A blocked shot. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign wordnet
  2. 7
    An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    the state of being rejected wordnet

Synonyms

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repudiationabandonmentabjurationabnegationagnosticismagreement to disagree

Example

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"Every successful writer has a drawer full of rejection letters."

Etymology

From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native Old English āworpennes (literally “thrown-out-ness”).

Related phrases

antibody-mediated rejectiondesk rejectionrejection nucleusrejection regionrejection samplingrejection sensitivityrejection slipblocked shot

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