Synonyms for reject
rɪˈdʒɛkt; ˈri dʒɛktre·ject

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1. rejectnoun

   Something that is rejected.

   She even rejected my improved offer.

   Synonyms:
   castaway, decline, repudiate, refuse, disown, deny, abnegate, turn down, abjure

   Antonyms:
   take up, accept

2. rejectverb

   to block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

   Synonyms:
   castaway, alien, outcast

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1. 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, revoke

   Antonyms:
   acknowledge, advocate, assert, avow, cherish, claim, defend, hold, maintain, own, proclaim, retain, uphold, vindicate

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1. reject

   Synonyms:
   repel, renounce, throw by, castaway, repudiate, decline, discard, refuse, exclude

   Antonyms:
   hail, welcome, accept, appropriate, choose, select, admit

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1. cull, rejectverb

   the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

   Synonyms:
   cull

   Antonyms:
   intromit, allow in, let in, accept, admit

2. rejectverb

   refuse to accept or acknowledge

   "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper"

   Synonyms:
   spurn, refuse, pass up, disapprove, pooh-pooh, eliminate, turn down, rule out, winnow out, scorn, resist, turn away, freeze off, disdain, decline

   Antonyms:
   accept, admit, let in, intromit, allow in

3. refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, declineverb

   refuse to accept

   "He refused my offer of hospitality"

   Synonyms:
   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 down

   Antonyms:
   intromit, let in, accept, allow in, admit

4. disapprove, rejectverb

   deem wrong or inappropriate

   "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"

   Synonyms:
   spurn, refuse, pass up, disapprove, pooh-pooh, eliminate, turn down, rule out, winnow out, scorn, resist, turn away, freeze off, disdain, decline

   Antonyms:
   let in, allow in, admit, accept, intromit

5. reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn downverb

   reject with contempt

   "She spurned his advances"

   Synonyms:
   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 down

   Antonyms:
   allow in, accept, admit, let in, intromit

6. resist, reject, refuseverb

   resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

   "His body rejected the liver of the donor"

   Synonyms:
   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 down

   Antonyms:
   accept, admit, intromit, let in, allow in

7. reject, turn down, turn away, refuseverb

   refuse entrance or membership

   "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"

   Synonyms:
   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 down

   Antonyms:
   let in, accept, allow in, intromit, admit

8. rule 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"

   Synonyms:
   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

   Antonyms:
   let in, intromit, accept, allow in, admit

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1. 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 shelf

2. rejectverb

   Synonyms:
   decline, refuse, repudiate, repel, rebuff, slight, despise

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1. rejectverb

   Synonyms:
   cast away, discard, refuse, decline, rebuff, repulse, contemn, repudiate

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1. List of paraphrases for "reject":

   dismiss, refuse, rejecting, rejection, repudiate, deny, refuses, oppose, disallow, refute, rejects, rejected, discard, repel

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How to use reject in a sentence?

1. Airplane:

   Ted Striker It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit.

2. Ben Carson:

   I would have problems with somebody who embraced all the doctrines associated with Islam, if they are not willing to reject sharia and all the portions of it that are talked about in the Quran -- if they are not willing to reject that, and subject that to American values and the Constitution, then of course, I would.

3. Lara Field:

   When children reject a food, is it because they don’t like it, or is it because they have been fed too many snacks throughout the day, and are simply too full to be interested in food ? When approached with a plate of broccoli, they may reject it, but if they were hungry, perhaps they would have been more willing to eat it.

4. Marcus Aurelius:

   Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

5. Lindsey Graham:

   As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.