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English noun: rejection | |||
| 1. | rejection (act) the act of rejecting something | ||
| Samples | His proposals were met with rejection. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | act, deed, human action, human activity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abandonment, avoidance, banishment, brush-off, desertion, displacement, dodging, forgoing, forsaking, forswearing, nonacceptance, proscription, renunciation, shunning, turndown, turning away | ||
| 2. | rejection (state) the state of being rejected | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | situation, state of affairs | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | apostasy, censure, defection, disfavor, disfavour, exclusion, excommunication, renunciation, reprobation | ||
| Antonyms | acceptance | ||
| 3. | rejection (phenomenon) (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign | ||
| Samples | Rejection of the transplanted liver. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | organic phenomenon | ||
| Domain category | medical specialty, medicine | ||
| 4. | rejection (communication) the speech act of rejecting | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | speech act | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | rebuff, renunciation, repudiation, repulse, short shrift, snub, summary treatment | ||
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