What is another word for reject?
Synonyms for reject
rɪˈdʒɛkt; ˈri dʒɛktre·ject
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
reject
Abjure, discard, forswear, recall, recant, renounce, retract, and revoke, like abandon, imply some previous connection. Renounce (Latin re, back, and nuntio, bear a message) is to declare against and give up formally and definitively; as, to renounce the pomps and vanities of the world. Recant (Latin re, back, and canto, sing) is to take back or deny formally and publicly, as a belief that one has held or professed. Retract (Latin re, back, and traho, draw) is to take back something that one has said as not true or as what one is not ready to maintain; as, to retract a charge or accusation; one recants what was especially his own, he retracts what was directed against another. Repudiate (Latin re, back, or away, and pudeo, feel shame) is primarily to renounce as shameful, hence to divorce, as a wife; thus in general to put away with emphatic and determined repulsion; as, to repudiate a debt. To deny is to affirm to be not true or not binding; as, to deny a statement or a relationship; or to refuse to grant as something requested; as, his mother could not deny him what he desired. To discard is to cast away as useless or worthless; thus, one discards a worn garment; a coquette discards a lover. Revoke (Latin re, back, and voco, call), etymologically the exact equivalent of the English recall, is to take back something given or granted; as, to revoke a command, a will, or a grant; recall may be used in the exact sense of revoke, but is often applied to persons, as revoke is not; we recall a messenger and revoke the order with which he was charged. Abjure (Latin ab, away, and juro, swear) is etymologically the exact equivalent of the Saxon forswear, signifying to put away formally and under oath, as an error, heresy, or evil practise, or a condemned and detested person. A man abjures his religion, recants his belief, abjures or renounces his allegiance, repudiates another's claim, renounces his own, retracts a false statement. A person may deny, disavow, disclaim, disown what has been truly or falsely imputed to him or supposed to be his. He may deny his signature, disavow the act of his agent, disown his child; he may repudiate a just claim or a base suggestion. A native of the United States can not abjure or renounce allegiance to the Queen of England, but will promptly deny or repudiate it. Compare ABANDON.
Synonyms:
abandon, abjure, deny, disavow, discard, disclaim, disown, forswear, recall, recant, refuse, renounce, repudiate, retract, revokeAntonyms:
acknowledge, advocate, assert, avow, cherish, claim, defend, hold, maintain, own, proclaim, retain, uphold, vindicate
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
cull, rejectverb
the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
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cullrejectverb
refuse to accept or acknowledge
"I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"
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spurn, refuse, pass up, disapprove, pooh-pooh, eliminate, turn down, rule out, winnow out, scorn, resist, turn away, freeze off, disdain, declinerefuse, reject, pass up, turn down, declineverb
refuse to accept
"He refused my offer of hospitality"
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freeze off, rule out, go down, deny, resist, worsen, winnow out, lower, correct, decline, lour, spurn, pooh-pooh, wane, disapprove, disdain, scorn, pass up, defy, turn away, refuse, eliminate, slump, turn downdisapprove, rejectverb
deem wrong or inappropriate
"I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
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spurn, refuse, pass up, disapprove, pooh-pooh, eliminate, turn down, rule out, winnow out, scorn, resist, turn away, freeze off, disdain, declinereject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn downverb
reject with contempt
"She spurned his advances"
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freeze off, eliminate, rule out, lower, resist, despise, winnow out, contemn, decline, lour, spurn, pass up, pooh-pooh, disapprove, disdain, scorn, turn away, refuse, turn downresist, reject, refuseverb
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
"His body rejected the liver of the donor"
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baulk, rule out, deny, stand, stand firm, freeze off, eliminate, hold out, fend, withstand, winnow out, decline, spurn, dissent, turn away, pooh-pooh, jib, balk, disapprove, disdain, scorn, pass up, defy, refuse, protest, resist, turn downreject, turn down, turn away, refuseverb
refuse entrance or membership
"They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
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freeze off, eliminate, rule out, avert, deflect, deny, resist, bend, winnow out, lower, decline, lour, spurn, pass up, pooh-pooh, disapprove, disdain, scorn, defy, turn away, refuse, turn downrule out, eliminate, winnow out, rejectverb
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"
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freeze off, rule out, excrete, wipe out, decline, scorn, obviate, decimate, get rid of, winnow out, carry off, egest, spurn, pass up, rule in, annihilate, extinguish, pooh-pooh, turn away, eliminate, disapprove, disdain, rid of, pass, close out, refuse, do away with, resist, turn down, preclude, eradicate
Dictionary of English Synonymes
rejectverb
Synonyms:
exclude, discard, eject, set aside, pass over, throw aside, cast off, lay aside, cast aside, cast away, put away, throw overboard, lay on the shelfrejectverb
Synonyms:
decline, refuse, repudiate, repel, rebuff, slight, despise
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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#1104 | lower | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1778 | stand | |
#1847 | correct | |
#5370 | recall | |
#5615 | decline | |
#5808 | eliminate | |
#5966 | alien | |
#6377 | exclude | |
#6506 | bend | |
#6679 | rejected | |
#7148 | protest | |
#7367 | refuse | |
#7851 | deny | |
#8574 | reject | |
#9957 | resist | |
#11260 | rejection | |
#12242 | oppose | |
#13973 | rejects | |
#14160 | refuses | |
#14530 | abandon | |
#15596 | dismiss | |
#17195 | dissent | |
#17665 | discard | |
#19121 | withstand | |
#20868 | preclude | |
#21075 | rejecting | |
#22918 | revoke | |
#28323 | slump | |
#28847 | eradicate | |
#29907 | defy | |
#30654 | avert | |
#31276 | despise | |
#31947 | disapprove | |
#32325 | disallow | |
#32840 | disclaim | |
#34727 | scorn | |
#35337 | worsen | |
#36392 | outcast | |
#37276 | refute | |
#37610 | disdain | |
#38092 | retract | |
#39509 | jib | |
#40564 | fend | |
#41879 | cull | |
#42537 | repel | |
#42606 | renounce | |
#44754 | deflect | |
#45925 | extinguish | |
#52227 | wane | |
#53908 | balk | |
#56175 | castaway | |
#66079 | annihilate | |
#79750 | obviate | |
#82810 | repudiate | |
#107435 | decimate | |
#110634 | excrete | |
#111844 | disown | |
#113548 | spurn | |
#114534 | disavow | |
#128134 | recant | |
#197935 | baulk | |
#203490 | lour | |
#212527 | abjure | |
#249199 | forswear |
How to use reject in a sentence?
President Biden should have ended this cruel and lawless policy long ago, and the court was correct to reject it today.
Even Justice Thomas and Samuel Alito, who might otherwise have been sympathetic to these challenges, went out of their way to express that they would grant no relief on the merits, not only did Supreme Court reject Texas's effort to challenge the results in four battleground states, but Supreme Court did so on a ground that will prevent any other states from doing so.
We are the real winners of this election and therefore what the electoral commission announced has nothing to do with the real election that took place, i can call on all Ugandans to reject the announcement that has been made by the electoral commission... to reject them with the contempt with which it deserves.
If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.
Translations for reject
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- رفض, رفArabic
- rebutjar, refusarCatalan, Valencian
- zamítnout, odmítnoutCzech
- afviseDanish
- ablehnen, verwerfen, zurückweisenGerman
- malakceptiEsperanto
- rechazar, artículo defectuoso, marginada, marginadoSpanish
- ردPersian
- hylkiö, torjua, hylky, hylätä, rejektiFinnish
- rejeterFrench
- diùlt, rach an aghaidhScottish Gaelic
- rexeitarGalician
- elvet, visszautasítHungarian
- hafnaIcelandic
- respingere, rifiutareItalian
- 拒否する, 拒絶Japanese
- 거절하다Korean
- rejiciuntLatin
- atmestiLithuanian
- hape, whakahoe, paruranga, ākiriMāori
- verwerpenDutch
- avvise, avslåNorwegian
- odrzut, odrzucić, odrzucaćPolish
- rejeitarPortuguese
- respinge, refuzaRomanian
- отвергать, отвергнутьRussian
- avfärda, avvisa, avslå, rataSwedish
- நிராகரிக்கTamil
- తిరస్కరించుTelugu
- reddetmekTurkish
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