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Definitions for Reject

[1] to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
[2] to refuse to grant (a request, demand, etc.).
[3] to refuse to accept (someone or something); rebuff: The other children rejected him. The publisher rejected the author's latest novel.
[4] to discard as useless or unsatisfactory: The mind rejects painful memories.
[5] to cast out or eject; vomit.
[6] to cast out or off.
[7] Medicine/Medical . (of a human or other animal) to have an immunological reaction against (a transplanted organ or grafted tissue): If tissue types are not matched properly, a patient undergoing a transplant will reject the graft.
[8] something rejected, as an imperfect article.
[9] to refuse to accept, acknowledge, use, believe, etc
[10] to throw out as useless or worthless; discard
[11] to rebuff (a person)
[12] (of an organism) to fail to accept (a foreign tissue graft or organ transplant) because of immunological incompatibility
[13] something rejected as imperfect, unsatisfactory, or useless

Words related to Reject

refuse, spurn, renounce, veto, scrap, dismiss, deny, repudiate, rebuff, repulse, shed, burn, despise, disbelieve, kill, exclude, decline, second, discredit, eliminate

Words nearby Reject

reiter's syndrome, reiterant, reiterate, reith, reive, reject, rejectamenta, rejectee, rejection, rejection region, rejection slip

Origin of Reject

1485–95; (v.) < Latin rējectus, past participle of rējicere to throw back, equivalent to re- re- + jec-, combining form of jacere to throw + -tus past participle suffix

Other words from Reject

re·ject·a·ble , adjective
re·ject·er , noun
re·jec·tive , adjective
pre·re·ject , verb (used with object)
qua·si-re·ject·ed , adjective
un·re·ject·a·ble , adjective
un·re·ject·ed , adjective
un·re·jec·tive , adjective

Word origin for Reject

C15: from Latin rēicere to throw back, from re- + jacere to hurl

Synonyms for Reject

deny, dismiss, rebuff, refuse, renounce, repudiate, scrap, spurn, turn down, veto, burn, cashier, chuck, decline, despise, disallow, disbelieve, discard, discount, discredit, disdain, eliminate, exclude, jettison, jilt, kill, nix, repel, reprobate, repulse, scoff, scorn, scout, second, shed, shun, slough, cast aside, cast off, cast out, give thumbs down to, not buy, pass by, pass on, pass up, put down, shoot down, throw away, throw out