Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
- 2transitive verb
To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
- 3transitive verb
To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
- 4noun
the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
Synonyms
- 5verb
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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- 6verb
refuse to accept or acknowledge
"I reject the idea of starting a war"
"The journal rejected the student's paper"
- 7verb
reject with contempt
"She spurned his advances"
- 8verb
deem wrong or inappropriate
"I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
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- 9verb
refuse to accept
"He refused my offer of hospitality"
- 10verb
refuse entrance or membership
"They turned away hundreds of fans"
"Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
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- 11verb
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
"His body rejected the liver of the donor"
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