Definition of rejects Rejects

/ɹɪʤɛˈkts/ - [rijekts] -

We found 3 definitions of rejects from 2 different sources.

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What does rejects mean?

Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • rejects (Noun)
    Plural of reject.

Part of speech

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  • rejects, verb, present, 3rd person singular of reject (infinitive).
  • rejects, noun, plural of reject.

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Verb

rejects, rejecting, rejected  

reject - refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"
  accept tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
  pass judgment, evaluate, judge form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
  disbelieve, discredit reject as false; refuse to accept
  repudiate refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"
  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; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"
  brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, disregard, ignore, dismiss give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"
reject - reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
  spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down
  pass up, turn down, refuse, decline, reject fail to acknowledge; "he passed me up in the street"
  turn away, turn down, refuse, reject move so as not face somebody or something
  refuse, decline show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike"
  rebuff, snub, repel reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
reject - refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
  turn down, turn away, refuse
  allow in, intromit, let in, admit declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"
  freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about
reject - deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
  disapprove
  o.k., okay, approve, sanction judge to be right or commendable; think well of
  pass judgment, evaluate, judge form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
  object express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent; "She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with"; "When asked to drive the truck, she objected that she did not have a driver's license"
  deprecate belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"
  deter, discourage try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
reject - refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"
  refuse, pass up, turn down, decline
  accept, have, take tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
  freeze off, spurn, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, turn down, reject express contempt about
  dishonor, dishonour refuse to accept; "dishonor checks and drafts"
  bounce hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball"
reject - resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor"
  resist, refuse
  react, respond undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions; "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"
reject - 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"
  rule out, eliminate, winnow out
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • reject (Noun)
    Something that is rejected.
  • reject (Noun)
    An unpopular person.
  • reject (Verb)
    To refuse to accept.
  • reject (Verb)
    To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • reject (v. t.)
    To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
  • reject (v. t.)
    To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
  • reject (v. t.)
    To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • reject
    To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge.
  • reject
    The person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.
  • reject
    To throw aside as useless or unsatisfactory.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • reject
    rē-jekt′, v.t. to throw away: to refuse: to renounce: to despise.—adjs. Rejec′table, Rejec′tible.—n.pl. Rejectamen′ta, excrement.—ns. Rejec′ter, -or; Rejec′tion, act of rejecting: refusal.—adj. Rejec′tive.—n. Reject′ment. [L. rejicĕre, rejectum—re-, back, jacĕre, to throw.]

Part of speech

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  • reject, verb, present, 1st person singular of reject (infinitive).
  • reject, verb (infinitive).
  • reject, noun, singular of rejects.

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