Rejection

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rejection \Re*jec"tion\ (r?-j?k"sh?n), n. [L. rejectio: cf. F.
     r['e]jection.]
     Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  rejection
       n 1: the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with
            rejection"
       2: the state of being rejected [ant: {acceptance}]
       3: (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept
          substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign;
          "rejection of the transplanted liver"
       4: the speech act of rejecting

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  206 Moby Thesaurus words for "rejection":
     Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abnegation,
     agnosticism, agreement to disagree, alienation, apostasy, atheism,
     ban, bar, barring, blackball, blackballing, blockade, booting out,
     boycott, bucking, castaway, castoff, challenge, circumscription,
     cold shoulder, complaint, contention, contraband, contradiction,
     contraposition, contravention, contraversion, counter-culture,
     counteraction, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, debarment,
     debarring, declension, declination, declinature, declining,
     deep six, defenestration, demarcation, denial, deprivation,
     detrusion, difference, dim view, disaccord, disagreement,
     disallowance, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval,
     disbelief, discard, discarding, discharge, disclaimer,
     disclamation, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment,
     discredit, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement,
     disillusion, disillusionment, dismissal, disobedience, disparity,
     displeasure, disposal, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissension,
     dissent, dissentience, dissidence, distaste, diversity,
     dropping out, dumping, ejection, ejectment, elimination, embargo,
     exception, exclusion, expulsion, extrusion, forbiddance,
     forbidden fruit, forbidding, head wind, heresy, holding back,
     impugnation, impugnment, inability to believe, inadmissibility,
     incredulity, index, index expurgatorius,
     index librorum prohibitorum, indignation, infidelity, inhibition,
     injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, jettison,
     junking, kicking downstairs, law, lockout, low estimation,
     low opinion, minimifidianism, minority opinion, misbelief,
     narrowing, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no,
     no-no, nonacceptance, nonadmission, nonagreement, nonassent,
     nonbelief, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformity,
     nonconsent, nonobservance, nullifidianism, objection, obtrusion,
     omission, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, ostracism,
     ouster, ousting, preclusion, prevention, prohibition,
     prohibitory injunction, proscription, protest, rebuff, rebutment,
     rebuttal, recantation, recusance, recusancy, refusal, refuse,
     reject, rejectamenta, relegation, removal, renunciation,
     repression, repudiation, resistance, restriction,
     restrictive covenants, retention, ruling out, scrapping, secession,
     spurning, standing against, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression,
     taboo, the boot, the bounce, throwaway, throwing out, thumbs-down,
     traversal, turndown, unbelief, unbelievingness, undercurrent,
     underground, unhappiness, unwillingness, variance, withdrawal,
     withholding, zoning, zoning laws