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Definition: Reject |
RejectNoun1. The person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality. Verb1. Refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper". 2. Refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality". 3. Refuse to approve; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods". 4. Reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances". 5. Refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs". 6. Dismiss from consideration; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reject" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Engineering & Technology | New article, whether or not finished, which because of a manufacturing fault can only be used as raw material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | Product sorted because of faults, poor quality, etc. but which may still be usable. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Any item of production, e. g. trees, logs, lumber, picked out for relegation or rejection because it does not meet certain specifications, e. g. as regards usable or on-grade content. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Material enriched in impurities which has been removed during the cleaning of pulp or stock. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Casting exhibiting a defect or inadaquate characteristics which make it unusable and therefore rejected during fabrication. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The material extracted from the feed during cleaning for retreatment or discard b. The stone or dirt discarded from a coal preparation plant, washery, or other process; has no value. See also:middlings; refuse; residue;tailings. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A supervisory frame which is used by the secondary to request retransmission of information frames starting with the frame numbered N(R). Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | To expel, react against physiologically (Doubleday Dict. ). Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| REJ | English | Reject | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RejectSynonyms: cull (n), decline (v), disapprove (v), disdain (v), eliminate (v), freeze off (v), pass up (v), pooh-pooh (v), refuse (v), rule out (v), scorn (v), spurn (v), turn away (v), turn down (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: accept (v), admit (v), approve (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Avoidance | Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject. |
Ejection | Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to. |
Exclusion | Xclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; (seclude); separate.; (disjoin). |
Refusal | Verb: refuse, reject, deny, decline, turn down; nill, negative; refuse one's assent, withhold one's assent; shake the head; close the hand, close the purse; grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire; pass. |
Rejection | Verb: reject; set aside, lay aside; give up; decline; (refuse); exclude, except; pluck, spin; cast. |
Adjective: rejected; Verb: reject, rejectaneous, rejectious; not chosen; to be thought of, out of the question | |
Relinquishment | Discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Tell me friend , when did Saruman the Wise reject reason for madness (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of materiel possessions (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) He likes you, that's why he treats you like a reject from the outlet Mall (Get a Clue; writing credit: Alana Burgi) Great, a Soul Train reject, with a Robin Hood complex (Undercover Brother; writing credit: Eran Merav) I reject absolutely pride, aggression, and retaliation (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) | |
Lyrics | Collected by thoughts of eternal benevolence, hereby reject (Anarchy Through Capitolism; performing artist: Kottonmouth Kings) Will you try and reject it (Erotica; performing artist: Madonna) Umm I was looking so good I couldn't reject myself (Oops (Oh My); performing artist: Tweet) | |
Clever | We often fear being rejected so very much that we reject ourselves first before anyone else has the chance. (references; author: unknown) | |
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![]() | Let all those who consider war to be the better solution reject my outstretched hand. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Put Britain first! : stop immigration, reject Common Market, ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Fyodor Dostoyevski | Mankind will reject and kill their prophets, but men love their martyrs and honour those whom they have done to death. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. |
Justice Felix Frankfurter | Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. |
Marcus Aurelius | Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. |
Mary Baker Eddy | Reject hatred without hating. |
Mikhail Bakunin | Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. |
Ronald Reagan | We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. |
Thomas Szasz | He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | For how can people, when once they understand their system, fail to see in it the best possible plan of the best possible state of society? Hence, they reject all political, and especially all revolutionary, action; they wish to attain their ends by peaceful means, and endeavour, by small experiments, necessarily doomed to failure, and by the force of example, to pave the way for the new social Gospel. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Except in the cases provided for in No.(6) of the present paragraph, the French authorities reserve to themselves the right, in individual cases, to reject the claim to French nationality. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Juvenal and Tacitus only reject it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Your body may reject the new kidney, so one transplant may not last a lifetime. (references) | |
Patients take medications for life to reduce their body's immune system's ability to reject "foreign" organs. (references) | ||
Future trials hopefully should build in laboratory studies to confirm or reject the principal underlying hypothesis. (references) | ||
Business | The Commission may reject applications to acquire Mexican companies for national security reasons. (references) | |
The Korean Government is obligated to reject the notification within a certain number of days of filing or the investment is automatically approved. (references) | ||
This means that if a pharmaceutical has marketing authority in one EU member country, then the pharmaceutical has to receive market approval for the other states within 90 days. A particular EU-member state may reject an application for serious reasons. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mexico | Although the Government does reject a few applications, usually due to incomplete documentation, the registration process is routine. (references) |
Tanzania | Prior to the October 2000 elections, government officials called on political candidates to avoid using religion as a campaign issue and urged the public to reject religiously oriented campaigns. (references) | |
Bahrain | Under the 1963 Citizenship Law, the Government may reject applications to obtain or renew passports for reasonable cause, but the applicant has the right to appeal such decisions before the High Civil Court. (references) | |
Discrimination | Bosnia and Herzegovina | In the Dayton Accords, the parties agreed to reject discrimination on such grounds as sex, race, color, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, or association with a national minority; nevertheless, there were many cases of discrimination. (references) |
Economic History | Singapore | Government officials reject such assertions. (references) |
Korea | However, the bank will reject those notifications in sectors that prohibit foreign entry. (references) | |
Human Rights | Uzbekistan | Lawyers may, and occasionally do, call on judges to reject such confessions and to investigate claims of torture. (references) |
Togo | Those who reject the traditional ruling may take their cases to the regular court system, which is the starting point for cases in urban areas. (references) | |
Rwanda | The President nominates two candidates for each Supreme Court seat, and the National Assembly may choose one or reject both; however, the latter is not known to ever have happened. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | Few indigenous persons hold title to their land, but many do not want to because most indigenous groups reject the concept of individual property. (references) |
Minorities | Nigeria | The Senate used its oversight role to reject many of Obasanjo's ambassadorial appointments and insisted on three nominees from each state for each appointment. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | In October after the expiration of the most recent extension, under instructions from the Sharon government, the State Prosecutor's Office submitted an affidavit to the High Court asking it to reject the villagers' appeal, stating that the Government had legally appropriated the land and that the precedent of returning displaced persons to their villages would be used for propaganda and political purposes by the Palestinian Authority. (references) | |
Political Economy | Hungary | The Parliament has the authority to propose, review, adopt or reject all legislation, and can override presidential vetoes. (references) |
THAILAND | In addition, they retain the right to accept or reject any or all bids at any time, may modify the technical requirements during the bidding process, and are not bound to accept the lowest bid. (references) | |
JORDAN | The law gives the tender-issuing department, as well as review committees at the Central Tenders and General Supplies Departments, the right to accept or reject any bid while withholding information on its decisions. (references) | |
Political Rights | Nepal | The National Assembly, or upper house, may amend or reject lower house legislation, but the lower house can overrule its objections. (references) |
Vietnam | During the year, the National Assembly continued to engage in vigorous debate on economic, legal, and social issues and to exert its increasing power to revise or reject draft laws. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | On March 3, an HDZ-organized "Croatian National Assembly" held in Mostar organized parallel government structures designed to establish a separate Croat government in Croat majority areas and instructed Croats to reject the newly elected Federation Government. (references) | |
Trade | Saudi Arabia | Quality control laboratories at ports of entry may reject products that are in violation of existing laws. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Despite regulations to the contrary, customs officials routinely reject foreign certifications of conformity to these standards. (references) | |
Oman | All media imports are subject to censorship; e.g., the Ministry of National Heritage and Cultures may reject or expunge morally or politically sensitive material from imported videos. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Sierra Leone | The registrar may reject applications for several reasons, including an insufficient number of members, proposed representation in an industry already served by an existing union, or incomplete documentation. (references) |
Guatemala | The majority of unions that engaged in collective bargaining during the year reported that some employers continued to reject the underlying premise of collective bargaining--that power in the workplace can be shared according to a contract between the employees and company management for the benefit of both. (references) | |
China | According to regulations posted at the entrances of many monasteries, monks are required to be "patriotic," and authorities require monks to: Sign a declaration agreeing to reject independence for Tibet; reject Gendun Choekyi Nyima, the boy recognized by the Dalai Lama as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama; reject and denounce the Dalai Lama; recognize the unity of China and Tibet; and not listen to the Voice of America. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose, and by many worthy persons is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool, which, however, they do not altogether reject, but use to assist in charging the knife. The immunity of these persons from swift and awful death is one of the most striking proofs of God's mercy to those that hate Him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We reject any insinuation that one race or another, one people or another, is in any sense inferior or expendable. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | So let us reject any among us who seek to reopen old wounds and to rekindle old hatreds. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Reject" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 69.24% of the time. "Reject" is used about 1,435 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 69.24% | 994 | 7,395 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 25.54% | 367 | 14,753 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.87% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.35% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,435 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "reject": accept or reject ♦ printer's reject ♦ reject an offer ♦ reject goods. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "reject": reject-ion. | |
Ending with "reject": england-reject, oxfam-reject. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "reject"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | weier (refuse). (various references) | |
Albanian | refuzoj (debar, decline, deny, disallow, disavow, disclaim, negative, override, overrule, rat, rebuff, refuse, relinquish, renounce, spurn, throw over, thumb down, withhold), vjell (belch, bring up, disgorge, eructate, puke, regorge, spew, spue, void, vomit), përjashtoj (bar, cast out, count out, dispense, disqualify, drop, eliminate, except, exclude, excommunicate, expel, forbid, foreclose, oust, rule out, score out, send down, weed out), nuk pranoj (decline, deny, differ, disapprove, disclaim, ignore, override, protest, push away, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, set aside, spurn, throw off, thumb down), nuk e mbaj, njeri i papërshtatshëm për ushtri, i papërshtatshëm (ill timed, ill-placed, ill-sorted, ill-suited, improper, inadequate, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconvenient, indecorous, ineligible, inept, infelicitous, out of place, unadaptable, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, undesirable, undue, unequal, unfavorable, unfavourable, unmeet, unsuitable, unsuited, unusable, wrong), hedh poshtë (censure, confute, contradict, controvert, decline, demolish, detrude, disclaim, disprove, dispute, knock out, push aside, rebut, refute, repudiate, sweep away, turn down, wave aside), flak (cast, cast off, chuck, clear out, fling, heave, hurl, pitch, scrap, throw, throw away), derdh (discharge, disgorge, dump, effuse, ejaculate, eject, empty out, escape, found, outpour, pay in, pour, pour off, pour out, run, scatter, shed, slop, spill, strew, tap, tip off, upset), caktoj si skarco, artikull i zhvleftësuar. (various references) | |
Arabic | نبذ (cashier, centrifuge, dereliction, discard, dismiss, dismissal, forsake, rejection, relegate, reprobate, scrap, slough, throw away), تقيأ (disgorge, gag, heave, puke, regurgitate, retch, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit), طرح (deduct, excrete, fling, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), أبى (refuse), رفض (decline, defy, denial, denied, deny, disallow, disapproval, disapprove, dismiss, ignore, negate, negation, negative, nix, objection, odium, overrule, pass up, rebuff, refusal, refuse, rejection, renouncement, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, scorn, set aside, throw out, throw over, toss, turn down), رذل (be low, repulsive, vapid), شخص منبوذ (pariah). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отстранявам (chase, cut away, eliminate, extirpate, fend off, get away, keep away, obviate, preclude, push aside, push away, remove, repel, send off, shake, sweep away, take out, weed out), отхвърлян кандидат, отблъсквам (avert, beat off, counter, drive back, estrange, fight off, foil, head off, jar, press back, push away, push back, put off, rebuff, repulse, resist, spurn, stave off, throw back, thrust aside, turn off, ward), нещо отхвърлено (outcast), не желая да имам нищо общо с, бракуван предмет, бракувам (condemn, cull, dispense, scrap), повръщам (be sick, bring up, cat, disgorge, gulp up, puke, regorge, regurgitate, sick up, throw up, vomit), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, relegate, sack, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop). (various references) | |
Chinese | 駁回 (overrule, turn down), 罷黜 (ban, dismiss from office), 废弃物 (litter), '斥 (eliminate, exclude, remove), 拚 (disregard, pat, stake all), "斥 (dismiss), " (discard, exclude, expel, renounce), 屏 (get rid of, hold back, keep control, put aside, screen), 廢 (discard as worthless, report as worthless, scrap). (various references) | |
Czech | zavrhnout (cast away, cast off, discard, proscribe, reprobate, repudiate, throw over), zamítnout (dismiss, overrule, throw out, throw over, vote down), odmítnout (decline, deny, impeach, kill, rebuff, refuse, renege, repel, repudiate, repulse, snub, turn down, wave aside). (various references) | |
Danish | vægre sig (refuse), afvise. (various references) | |
Dutch | verwerpen (condemn, disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke), weigeren (refuse), afwijzen (refuse), afslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, beat off, cease, come to a halt, decrease, discount, go down, halt, knock off, lower, rebate, reduce the price, stop, strike off, turn, turning). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rifuzi (refuse), malakcepti voĉdone, malakcepti. (various references) | |
Faeroese | sýta (abnegate, deny, refuse), havna (refuse). (various references) | |
Finnish | rejekti, raakki (cull), torjua (avert, destroy, repress, tend off, ward off), susi (dud, wolf), poiste, hylkypuu (waste timber), hylky (refuse, waste, wreck), hylkiä (despise), hylkäys (refusal), hylkääminen (abandonment, declining, desertion, refusal, rejection), hylättiin (was turned down), hylätä (abandon, cancel, decline, desert, disallow, discard, dismiss, disown, forsake, leave, refuse), evätä (refuse). (various references) | |
French | rejeter (refuse, refute, repudiate, repulse), rejet (rejection, repudiation, repulse), refuser (refuse, repudiate). (various references) | |
Frisian | wegerje (refuse), ôfwize (refuse), ôfstimme (accommodate, adapt, adhere, adjust, attune, conform, fit, fix, mount, place, tune), ôfstegerje, ôfslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, decrease, discount, lower, rebate, reduce the price, turn), ôfkitse (refuse). (various references) | |
German | ausschlagen (be deflected, beat out, bowl out, bud, burgeon, germinate, hit out, kick, kick out, knock out, lash out, redound, refuse, start to bud, swing round, turn down, waive), verwerfen (abolish, abort, brush aside, condemn, discard, dismiss, overrule, quash, rejection, reprobate, to overrule, to reprobate), Ausschuss (board, caucus, committee, exit point, exit wound, rejects, trash), ablehnen (challenge, decline, disallow, disapprove of, disclaim, object, oppose, opt out, overrule, quash, refuse, repudiate, spurn, throw out, to decline, to defeat, to deprecate, to depreciate, to disclaim, to disown, to refuse, to repudiate, to turn down, turn down, vote out). (various references) | |
Greek | απορρίπτω (cast, disallow, discard, disclaim, fail, overrule, refuse, scout, shed, turn down). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוצר פ'ום, מוצר פסול, למאוס (abhor, despise, detest, hate), לשקץ (abhor, detest, loathe), לפרוע (abandon, cause disturbance, riot), לפסול (cancel, disallow, disqualify, illegalize, invalidate, rule out), לז וח (abandon, desert, forsake, lay aside), ל אר (abhor, abuse, despise), "ח" (postpone). (various references) | |
Hungarian | selejt (brack, production losses, refuse, rejectamenta, scrap, shorts, spoilage, waste, waste matter, wastrel). (various references) | |
Icelandic | neita (abnegate, deny, refuse), afþakka. (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyisihkan (separate out, set aside), mengenggani, mengapkir (ban, condemn, prohibit), membuang (banish, cast, dump, outcast). (various references) | |
Italian | rifiutare (decline, deny, disallow, rebut, refuse, repudiate, spurn, throw over, turn down, withhold), rigettare (puke, throw again), scarto (board, difference, discard, margin, rejection, run out, scrap, wastage, waste), rifiutarsi (refuse). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リサジューの図形 (fracture, Lissajous's figure, list, list broker, listing, lithograph, lizard, lizardman, lysine, reconstruction, reserve, restart, restore, restructure, restructuring, result, resurrection, RISC, risk, risk control, risk factor, risk finance, squirrel, wrist, wristband). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リジェクト . (various references) | |
Korean | 불량'. (various references) | |
Malay | menolak (refuse). (various references) | |
Manx | jiooldey (cast off, deny, disclaim, dismiss, disown, dissent, eliminate, exclude, negate, negation, negative, refuse, rejection, renouncement, repudiate, repudiation, spurn, traverse), jiooldag. (various references) | |
Norwegian | takke nei til, nekte (abnegate, denigh, deny, refuse). (various references) | |
Papiamen | nenga (abnegate, deny, refuse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ejectray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | recusar (balk, challenge, confute, decline, deny, dismiss, pill, pish, put back, rebut, refuse, reprobate, repulse, set aside, turn down, withhold), rejeitar (cast off, condemn, confute, daff, deny, disapprove, disavow, disclaim, get up the better, negative, overrule, pill, pip, put by, rebuff, rebut, refuse, renounce, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repulse, throw-out, turn down), rejeição (cast-off, condemnation, disallowance, dismissal, dismission, rebuttal, refusal, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, veto), refugo (cull, dirt, garbage, jetsam, mullock, offal, offscourings, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scum, spoilage, trash, trumpery, waste). (various references) | |
Romanian | respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out), refuza (decline, deny, disallow, foreclose, jib at, put back, rebut, refuse, repudiate, repulse, resist), rebuta (scrap), rebut (jetsam, refuse, rubbish, scrap, scum, spoilage, trash), vomita (disgorge, fetch up, heave, puke, regorge, spew, throw up, vomit), persoanã respinsã la recrutare, pãrãsi (abandon, cast off, cease, clear, desert, drop, evacuate, fail, flee, forsake, jilt, leave, quit, relinquish, renounce, surrender, throw, vacate), lepãda (cast, drop, fling, hurl, relinquish, renounce, shed, slink, slip, throw), evacua (clear, eject, evacuate, evict, loosen, oust, remove), dezaproba (censure, condemn, deprecate, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, disavow, discommend, discountenance, disfavor, disfavour, dispraise, reprobate), deşeu (refuse, remnant), da la rebut, arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble), alege (appear, become, choose, churn, cull, decide, distinguish, elect, extract, glean, Peel, pick, pick on, pick out, refuse, remain, result, return, screen, select, separate, shell, sift, single out, sort, sunder, take one's choice, winnow). (various references) | |
Russian | уцененный товар, отказываться (abdicate, abjure, abnegate, decline, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, fail to, forgo, forsake, forsaken, forsook, recede, refuse, refused, renounce, repudiate, resign, waive, waived), отказывать (deny, fail, refuse), отклонять (decline, deflect, divert, lead off, set ~ aside, set aside, turn aside, turn down), отвергать отказ (spurning), отвергать (cast aside, disallow, discard, discarding, jettison, negate, negative, override, overrule, rebut, refuse, refuse to admit, rejecting, repel, repudiate, repulse, spurn, turn down, vote down), отбрасывать (cast aside, cast away, cast out, throw aside, toss aside), забраковывать, браковать (condemn, disapprove, disapprove of, rebuke), бракованное изделие, признанный негодным, изрыгать (belch, disgorge, eructate, regorge, regurgitate), извергать (disgorge, ejaculate, eject, eructate, erupt, excrete, regurgitate, spew, spout). (various references) | |
Scottish | ob (avoid; fail, give in or over, refuse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odbiti (cast aside, counter, decline, deduct, deny, disallow, dock, drive back, fend off, fight off, keep off, knock off, overrule, parry, rebuff, reflect, refuse, repel, repudiate, repulse, stave off, strike up, throw back, turn away, turn back, turn down, ward off, wean), odbaciti (abandon, cast aside, cast away, disallow, discard, dismiss, leave, off it, repel, repudiate, repulse, set apart, throw away, toss off), odbačen (cast off, castoff, derelict, dump, forlorn, off-cast, thrown, turndown), nešto odbijeno, škartirati, škart (spoilage, write-offs). (various references) | |
Spanish | rechazar (ban, beat back, beat off, defeat, deny, deprecate, disallow, disavow, discard, disclaim, discourage, dismiss, disown, drive back, fend, fend off, fight off, hand off, hold off, negative, overrule, Parry, pass up, press back, push back, put aside, rebuff, rebut, refuse, repel, repudiate, repulse, say no to, scout, set aside, Spike, spurn, stave off, stem, throw back, throw out, thrust aside, turn away, turn down, vote down, vote out, ward off, wave aside, wave away), suspender (abate, adjourn, ban, call off, catch, discontinue, fail, flunk, hang, hang up, hold up, knock off, lay aside, lay by, lay off, leave off, pip, pluck, stay, stop, suspend), rehusar (decline, deny, jib, refuse), desecho (cast off, cull, discard, dross, refuse, rejected article, rubbish, throw out). (various references) | |
Sranan | weygri (refuse), mombi (refuse). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillbakavisa (deny, field, overrule, refuse, refute, repel), slopa (abolish, break down, demolish, dismantle, pull down, take down), rata (refuse, scorn), förkasta (cast off, denounce, disallow, disapprove, disavow, discard, jettison, kill, negative, overrule, reprobate, repudiate, throw overboard, turn down), avstöta. (various references) | |
Thai | บอกปั" (rebuff), อาเจียน (cat), ปฏิเสธ (gainsay, negate, spurn), คนหรือสิ่งที่ถูกปฏิเสธ. (various references) | |
Turkish | reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, controvert, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), kusmak (bring up, cast, disgorge, feed the fishes, heave, puke, spew, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spue, spue forth, spue out, spue up, throw up, upchuck, vomit), kabul etmemek (cast to the winds, decline, disapprove, disclaim, gainsay, refuse, repudiate, rule out, rule smth. out of order, turn thumbs down on, wave aside), istememek (be undesirous of, hate, jib, not to want, wave aside), işe yaramaz (dud, fiddling, good for nothing, idle, it's no use, no good, noneffective, non-effective, null, of no avail, of no use, offcast, otiose, out, refuse, unfit, unserviceable, useless, weedy), geri çevirmek (decline, fall down, rebuff, refuse, repel, repulse, reverse, spurn, turn away, turn back), defolu mal (rejection, waster, wastrel), çürüğe çıkan kimse, çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), ıskartaya çıkarmak (cull, discard, scrap), ıskarta (cull, discard, rejection, throw out, waste product, waster, wastrel, weedy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ret etmek (deflect, dissuade). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відхиляти (avert, challenge, divert, ignore, lead off, negative, non-concur, override, repel, repudiate, ride over, swerve, turn aside), відкидати (abnegate, baffle, balk, brush away, cast aside, cast away, deny, disapprove, discard, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reprobate, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, throw away, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away), визнаний непридатним, не визнавати (renounce), забракувати, брак (brack, dearth, defect, deficiency, discard [tech.], spoilage, waster). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật bị loại (rejection), vật bỏ đi (cast-off, rejectamenta, rubbish). (various references) | |
Welsh | llysu, gwrthod (deny, refuse). (various references) | |
Zulu | -ala (refuse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kuum, zag . . . tag. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abdicamus, abdico, abicere, abicis, abicit, abicite, abicitis, abicitur, abnegantes, abnegaverunt, abneges, abneget, abnuo, antiqua, antiquas, antiquo, aspernabantur, aversantium, aversatur, aversatus, averseris, aversor, denego, detracta, detractant, detractaque, expellam, expelle, expellens, expellere, expellerent, expelleret, expellet, expelletur, expelli, expellit, expellitur, expulerat, expulerunt, expuli, expulisti, expulistis, expulit, expulsi, expulsus, recusantes, recusare, recuso, reiciendum, reiecta, renuntia, renuntiabo, renuntiare, renuntiassent, renuntiat, renuntiate, renuntiatum, renuntiaveris, renuntiaverunt, renuntiavit, renuntiavitque, renuntient, renuntiet, renuo, reproba, reprobabitur, reprobare, reprobari, reprobassent, reprobastis, reprobat, reprobatum, reprobatus, reprobaverunt, reprobo, repudiata, repudiatam, repulsa, respuere, respuistis, respuo, vetare, vetat, vetati, vetatur, veteris, vetetur, vota, voto. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | reprobare. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | forseon. (various references) |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | taraha. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 6, Verse 37 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Pan o didwsin moi o pathr proV eme hxei kai ton ercomenon proV me ou mh ekbalw exw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omne quod dat mihi Pater ad me veniet et eum qui venit ad me non eiciam foras |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eall þæt se fæder me syllð cymð to me. & ic ne werpe ut þone þeto me cymð; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Al thing, that the fadir yyueth to me, schal come to me; and Y schal not caste hym out, that cometh to me. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | All that the father geveth me shall come to me: and him yt cometh to me I cast not awaye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will in no wise reject. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 6, Verse 37 |
| Cebuano | Ang tanan nga gihatag kanako sa Amahan moari gayud kanako, ug siya nga moari kanako dili ko gayud igasalikway. |
| Croatian | Svi koje mi daje Otac doæi æe k meni, i onoga tko doðe k meni neæu izbaciti; |
| Danish | Alt, hvad Faderen giver mig, skal komme til mig; og den, som kommer til mig, vil jeg ingenlunde kaste ud. |
| Dutch | Al wat Mij de Vader geeft, zal tot Mij komen; en die tot Mij komt, zal Ik geenszins uitwerpen. |
| Finnish | Kaikki, minkä Isä antaa minulle, tulee minun tyköni; ja sitä, joka minun tyköni tulee, minä en heitä ulos. |
| French | Tous ceux que le Père me donne viendront moi, et je ne mettrai pas dehors celui qui vient moi; |
| German | Alles, was mir mein Vater gibt, das kommt zu mir; und wer zu mir kommt, den werde ich nicht hinausstoßen. |
| Hungarian | Minden, a mit nékem ád az Atya, én hozzám jõ; és azt, a ki hozzám jõ, semmiképen ki nem vetem. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Semua orang yang diberikan Bapa kepada-Ku akan datang kepada-Ku. Aku tidak akan menolak siapa pun yang datang kepada-Ku. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Segala sesuatu yang Bapa karuniakan kepada-Ku, itulah juga akan datang kepada-Ku, dan orang yang datang kepada-Ku, sekali-kali tiada Aku akan menolak dia. |
| Latvian | Visi, ko Tçvs man dod, nâks pie manis; un kas pie manis nâk, to es laukâ nedzîðu. |
| Maori | Ko a te Matua e homai ai ki ahau ka haere katoa mai ki ahau; a ki te haere mai tetahi ki ahau, e kore rawa e panga e ahau ki waho. |
| Norwegian | Alle de som Faderen gir mig, kommer til mig, og den som kommer til mig, vil jeg ingenlunde støte ut; |
| Portuguese | Todo o que o Pai me dá virá a mim; e o que vem a mim de maneira nenhuma o lançarei fora. |
| Rumanian | Tot ce-Mi dq Tatql, va ajunge la Mine; wi pe cel ce vine la Mine, nu -l voi izgoni afarq: |
| Russian | чУЕ, ЮФП "БЕФ нОЕ пФЕ", ЛП нОЕ ТЙ"ЕФ; Й ТЙИП"СЭЕЗП ЛП нОЕ ОЕ ЙЪЗПОА ЧПО, |
| Shuar | Ashí shuaran winia Apar tsankatrukarmiania nu, Wíi shuar ajasartatui. Winin winiana Núnaka penké nakitrashtatjai. |
| Spanish | Todo lo que el Padre me da vendrá a mí; y al que a mí viene, jamás lo echaré fuera. |
| Swahili | Wote anaonipa Baba watakuja kwangu; nami sitamtupa nje yeyote anayekuja kwangu, |
| Swedish | Allt vad min Fader giver mig, det kommer till mig; och den som kommer till mig, honom skall jag sannerligen icke kasta ut. |
| Uma | Hawe'ea tauna to nawai' -maka Tuama-ku, bate tumai hi Aku'. Pai' hema-hema to tumai hi Aku', bate kutarima-i pai' uma-i kupopalai. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reject": rejected, rejectee, rejectees, rejecter, rejecters, rejecting, rejectingly, rejection, rejections, rejective, rejector, rejectors, rejects. (additional references) | |
Words containing "reject": antirejection. (additional references) | |
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"Reject" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dreject, radjick, rajic, reje, rejest, rejet, rejut, repect, resect, retect, rjet, roject, Rujeka. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reject" (pronounced rije"kt or rē"jekt) |
| 5 | -i j e" k t | deject, eject. |
| 4 | -j e" k t | inject, interject, subject. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, collect, confect, connect, correct, decked, deflect, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, disrespect, dissect, effect, elect, erect, expect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inflect, inspect, interconnect, intersect, misdirect, necked, neglect, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, recollect, reconnect, redirect, reelect, reflect, reinspect, respect, resurrect, sect, select, suspect, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked. |
| 4 | -j e k t | abject, object, project. |
| 3 | -e k t | defect, prospect. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-j-r-t" | |
-1 letter: eject, erect, terce. | |
-2 letters: cere, cete, jeer, jete, rete, tree. | |
-3 letters: cee, ere, jee, jet, rec, ree, ret, tee. | |
-4 letters: er, et, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-j-r-t" | |
+1 letter: ejector, reeject, rejects. | |
+2 letters: ejectors, reejects, reinject, rejacket, rejected, rejectee, rejecter, rejector, reobject. | |
+3 letters: interject, projected, reejected, reinjects, rejackets, rejectees, rejecters, rejecting, rejection, rejective, rejectors, reobjects, trajected. | |
+4 letters: conjecture, electrojet, interjects, projectile, projective, reejecting, reinjected, rejacketed, rejections, reobjected, surjective. | |
+5 letters: conjectured, conjecturer, conjectures, electrojets, interjected, interjector, introjected, megaproject, projectable, projectiles, reinjecting, reinjection, rejacketing, rejectingly, reobjecting, superjacent. | |
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