noun
1. the act of rejecting something (Freq. 5)
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his proposals were met with rejection
• Derivationally related forms: ↑reject
• Hypernyms: ↑act, ↑deed, ↑human action, ↑human activity
• Hyponyms:
↑brush-off, ↑avoidance, ↑turning away, ↑shunning, ↑dodging, ↑abandonment, ↑forsaking, ↑desertion, ↑renunciation, ↑forgoing, ↑forswearing, ↑nonacceptance, ↑turndown, ↑banishment, ↑proscription, ↑displacement
2. the state of being rejected (Freq. 1)
• Ant: ↑acceptance
• Hypernyms: ↑situation, ↑state of affairs
• Hyponyms:
↑apostasy, ↑renunciation, ↑defection, ↑disfavor, ↑disfavour, ↑excommunication, ↑exclusion, ↑censure, ↑reprobation
3. (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign
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rejection of the transplanted liver
• Topics: ↑medicine, ↑medical specialty
• Hypernyms: ↑organic phenomenon
4. the speech act of rejecting
• Hypernyms: ↑speech act
• Hyponyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.