- rejection - the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
--1 is a kind of act, human action, human activity
--1 has particulars:brush-off; avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging; abandonment, forsaking, desertion; renunciation, forgoing, forswearing; nonacceptance, turndown; banishment, proscription; displacement Derived forms: verb reject2, verb reject3, verb reject1 - rejection - the state of being rejected
--2 is a kind of situation, state of affairs
Antonyms: acceptance
--2 has particulars:apostasy, renunciation, defection; disfavor, disfavour; excommunication, exclusion, censure; reprobation - rejection - (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver"
--3 is a kind of organic phenomenon
- rejection - the speech act of rejecting
--4 is a kind of speech act
--4 has particulars:repudiation, renunciation; rebuff, snub, repulse; short shrift, summary treatment - rejection - the speech act of rejecting