reject
reject is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
- transitive verb. To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
- transitive verb. To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
- noun. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- verb. 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"
- verb. refuse to accept or acknowledge
"I reject the idea of starting a war"
"The journal rejected the student's paper"
- verb. reject with contempt
"She spurned his advances"
- verb. deem wrong or inappropriate
"I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
- verb. refuse to accept
"He refused my offer of hospitality"
- verb. refuse entrance or membership
"They turned away hundreds of fans"
"Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
- verb. resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
"His body rejected the liver of the donor"
Synonyms
cull, eliminate, disdain, scorn, spurn, disapprove, decline, refuse, resist
Common word forms
rejects, rejected, rejecter, rejecting, rejectable, rejectment
Words from these letters
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