When you reject something, you rule it out or dismiss it. If you're trying to pick a fancy restaurant to go to for your birthday, you'll probably reject the diner you went to just yesterday.
To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
Noun
the person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
Verb
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"
Verb
refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student''s paper"
Verb
reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
Verb
deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"
Verb
refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality"
Verb
refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"
Verb
resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor"
v. t.
To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
v. t.
To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline
haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
v. t.
To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
Reject
Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers.
Reject me not from among thy children.2.
That golden scepter which thou didst reject.
Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me.3.
To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
Usage Examples
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.
That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
If we reject science, we reject the common man.
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