rejection

Other forms of rejection

plural

rejections·

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 rejection

What does rejection mean?

rejection means "the act of rejecting something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rejection?

rejection has 3 syllables: re-jec-tion. The stress falls on "jec". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈdʒɛkʃən/.

What is the opposite of rejection?

The recorded antonyms are acceptance.

Is rejection a common word?

rejection is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 rejection?

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