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. Rejectverb

   Synonyms:
   To repel, renounce, discard, rebuff, refuse, decline.

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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. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   I completely reject claims that I'm trying to take over the media. I am in favor of a multiplicity of channels.

2. President Barack Obama:

   We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion, this isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong.

3. Max Lerner:

   The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

4. Anthony Constantino:

   The New York GOP is a failing establishment, it's a losing establishment, they reject outsiders. This happened with Donald Trump. The Republican Party tried to keep Donald Trump out, as well, because they knew he was going to reform things.

5. Gene Karpinski:

   This veto, along with the president’s increasing public skepticism about Keystone XL ... makes us more confident than ever that (the) president will reject the permit itself once and for all.