Rejection

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=jec=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Rejection, n. [L. rejectio: cf. F. réjection.].

 Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

Rejection

Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abnegation, agnosticism, agreement to disagree, alienation, apostasy, atheism, ban, bar, barring, blackball, blackballing, blockade, booting out, boycott, bucking, castaway, castoff, challenge, circumscription, cold shoulder, complaint, contention, contraband, contradiction, contraposition, contravention, contraversion, counter-culture, counteraction, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, debarment, debarring, declension, declination, declinature, declining, deep six, defenestration, demarcation, denial, deprivation, detrusion, difference, dim view, disaccord, disagreement, disallowance, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, disbelief, discard, discarding, discharge, disclaimer, disclamation, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, discredit, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disillusion, disillusionment, dismissal, disobedience, disparity, displeasure, disposal, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, distaste, diversity, dropping out, dumping, ejection, ejectment, elimination, embargo, exception, exclusion, expulsion, extrusion, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, head wind, heresy, holding back, impugnation, impugnment, inability to believe, inadmissibility, incredulity, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, indignation, infidelity, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, jettison, junking, kicking downstairs, law, lockout, low estimation, low opinion, minimifidianism, minority opinion, misbelief, narrowing, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, no-no, nonacceptance, nonadmission, nonagreement, nonassent, nonbelief, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonobservance, nullifidianism, objection, obtrusion, omission, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, ostracism, ouster, ousting, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, protest, rebuff, rebutment, rebuttal, recantation, recusance, recusancy, refusal, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, relegation, removal, renunciation, repression, repudiation, resistance, restriction, restrictive covenants, retention, ruling out, scrapping, secession, spurning, standing against, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, the boot, the bounce, throwaway, throwing out, thumbs-down, traversal, turndown, unbelief, unbelievingness, undercurrent, underground, unhappiness, unwillingness, variance, withdrawal, withholding, zoning, zoning laws

ROGET THESAURUS

Rejection

Rejection

N rejection, repudiation, exclusion, refusal, declination, rejected, reject, rejectaneous, rejectious, not chosen, to be thought of, out of the question, neither, neither the one nor the other, no, non haec in faedera.

Avoidance

N avoidance, abstention, abstinence, for bearance, refraining, inaction, neutrality, avoidance, evasion, elusion, seclusion, avolation, flight, escape, retreat, recoil, departure, rejection, shirker, truant, fugitive, refugee, runaway, runagate, maroon, unsought, unattempted, avoiding, neutral, shy of, elusive, evasive, fugitive, runaway, shy, wild, Adj, lest, in order to avoid, Int, forbear!, keep off, hands off!, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

Exclusion

N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, Darby and Joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, Simon Stylites, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes, outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.

Refusal

N refusal, rejection, noncompliance, incompliance, denial, declining, declension, declinature, peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal, repulse, rebuff, discountenance, recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer, dissent, revocation, refusing, restive, restiff, recusant, uncomplying, unconsenting, not willing to hear of, deaf to, refused, ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible, no, on no account, not for the world, no thank you, thanks but no thanks, non possumus, your humble servant, bien oblige, not on your life, no way, not even if you beg on your knees.

Ejection

N ejection, emission, effusion, rejection, expulsion, exportation, eviction, extrusion, trajection, discharge, emesis, vomiting, vomition, egestion, evacuation, ructation, eructation, bloodletting, venesection, phlebotomy, paracentesis, expuition, exspuition, tapping, drainage, clearance, clearage, deportation, banishment, rouge's march, relegation, extradition, dislodgment, bouncer, chucker-out, vomit, vomitus, puke, barf, emitting, emitted Int, begone!, get you gone!, get away, go away, get along, go along, get along with you, go along with you!, go your way!, away with!, off with you!, get the hell out of here!, go about your business!, be off!, avaunt!, aroynt!, allez-vous-en!, jao!, va-t'en!.