Defenition of the word rejection

• Defenition of the word rejection

  • the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
  • the speech act of rejecting
  • the state of being rejected
  • (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver"
  • the act of rejecting something
  • (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

Hyponyms for the word rejection

• • abandonment
  • apostasy
  • avoidance
  • banishment
  • brush-off
  • censure
  • defection
  • desertion
  • disfavor
  • disfavour
  • displacement
  • dodging
  • exclusion
  • excommunication
  • forgoing
  • forsaking
  • forswearing
  • nonacceptance
  • proscription
  • rebuff
  • renunciation
  • reprobation
  • repudiation
  • repulse
  • short shrift
  • shunning
  • snub
  • summary treatment
  • turndown
  • turning away

Hypernyms for the word rejection

• • act
  • deed
  • human action
  • human activity
  • organic phenomenon
  • situation
  • speech act
  • state of affairs

Antonyms for the word rejection

• • acceptance

See other words

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  • The interpretation of the word priggish
  • What is meant by unintelligent
  • The lexical meaning priggishly
  • The dictionary meaning of the word transporters
  • The grammatical meaning of the word baseboards
  • Meaning of the word with modesty
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word straight-laced
  • The origin of the word refused
  • Synonym for the word refuses
  • Antonyms for the word adeptness
  • Homonyms for the word vetoing
  • Hyponyms for the word vetoes
  • Holonyms for the word intentness
  • Hypernyms for the word proscription
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word perspicacity
  • Translation of the word in other languages intents