REJECTION
Definition:
- [noun] the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
- [noun] the state of being rejected
- [noun] (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver"
- [noun] the speech act of rejecting
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Related Words:
- brush-off
- avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging
- abandonment, forsaking, desertion
- renunciation, forgoing, forswearing
- nonacceptance, turndown
- banishment, proscription
- displacement
- apostasy, renunciation, defection
- disfavor, disfavour
- excommunication, exclusion, censure
- reprobation
- repudiation, renunciation
- rebuff, snub, repulse
- short shrift, summary treatment
