rejection
rejection Lexical Profile
rejection Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The dismissing or refusing of a proposal, idea, application, or request.
"The novelist received over twenty rejection letters from publishers before her manuscript was finally accepted."
The spurning of a person's affection, companionship, or social inclusion.
"Fear of social rejection often prevents teenagers from expressing their true opinions among peers."
An immune response in which a transplant recipient's body attacks and fails to accept transplanted tissue or an organ.
"Patients who undergo kidney transplants must take immunosuppressant medications to prevent organ rejection."
• Rhymes for rejection
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 15th century from Middle French réjection or directly from Latin rejectio ('a throwing back'), derived from the verb reicere, combining re- ('back') and jacere ('to throw').