reject

1. 1.

   the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

   Synonymscull

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Other forms of reject

plural

rejects·

past tense

rejected·

present participle

rejecting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reject

What does reject mean?

reject means "refuse to accept or acknowledge". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reject?

reject has 2 syllables: re-ject. The stress falls on "ject". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈdʒɛkt/.

What is another word for reject?

Close synonyms include refuse, pass up, turn down, decline, disapprove. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of reject?

The recorded antonyms are accept, admit.

Is reject a common word?

reject is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with reject?

5 words rhyme with reject. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.