Synonyms of the word reject


REJECTCULL - DECIDING - DECLINE - DISAPPROVE - DISDAIN - ELIMINATE - EVALUATE - JUDGE - POOH-POOH - REACT - REFUSE - RESIST - RESPOND - SCORN - SPURN

reject

  • v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
  • v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  • n. Something that is rejected.
  • n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

cull

  • v. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  • v. To gather, collect.
  • v. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled…
  • v. (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
  • v. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
  • n. A selection.
  • n. An organised killing of selected animals.
  • n. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
  • n. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

deciding

  • v. present participle of decide.

decline

  • n. Downward movement, fall.
  • n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
  • n. A weakening.
  • n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
  • v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
  • v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
  • v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
  • v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
  • v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
  • v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
  • v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
  • v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

disapprove

  • v. To condemn; consider wrong or inappropriate.
  • v. To refuse to approve; reject.
  • v. To have or express an unfavorable opinion.

disdain

  • n. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
  • n. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
  • v. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.

eliminate

  • v. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
  • v. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
  • v. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
  • v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
  • v. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

evaluate

  • v. (transitive) to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression).
  • v. (transitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.

judge

  • n. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering…
  • n. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
  • n. A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
  • n. A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
  • v. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
  • v. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
  • v. (transitive) To form an opinion on.
  • v. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
  • v. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
  • v. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

pooh-pooh

  • v. (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.

react

  • v. (transitive) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
  • v. (physics) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force.
  • v. (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two…
  • v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.

refuse

  • adj. Discarded, rejected.
  • n. (Britain) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
  • v. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
  • v. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
  • v. (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
  • n. (obsolete) refusal.

resist

  • v. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
  • v. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
  • v. (intransitive) To oppose.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
  • n. A protective coating or covering.

respond

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
  • v. (intransitive) To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
  • v. (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.
  • n. A response.
  • n. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
  • n. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost…

scorn

  • v. (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
  • v. (intransitive) To scoff, express contempt.
  • v. (transitive) To reject, turn down.
  • v. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
  • n. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
  • n. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
  • n. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

spurn

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
  • v. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
  • v. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity).
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
  • n. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
  • n. A kick; a blow with the foot.
  • n. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
  • n. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

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