Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to reject
Participle: rejected
Gerund: rejecting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | reject |
| you | reject |
| he;she;it | rejects |
| we | reject |
| you | reject |
| they | reject |
Perfect
| I | have rejected |
| you | have rejected |
| he;she;it | has rejected |
| we | have rejected |
| you | have rejected |
| they | have rejected |
Past
| I | rejected |
| you | rejected |
| he;she;it | rejected |
| we | rejected |
| you | rejected |
| they | rejected |
Pluperfect
| I | had rejected |
| you | had rejected |
| he;she;it | had rejected |
| we | had rejected |
| you | had rejected |
| they | had rejected |
Future
| I | will reject |
| you | will reject |
| he;she;it | will reject |
| we | will reject |
| you | will reject |
| they | will reject |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rejected |
| you | will have rejected |
| he;she;it | will have rejected |
| we | will have rejected |
| you | will have rejected |
| they | will have rejected |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | reject |
| you | reject |
| he;she;it | reject |
| we | reject |
| you | reject |
| they | reject |
Perfect
| I | have rejected |
| you | have rejected |
| he;she;it | have rejected |
| we | have rejected |
| you | have rejected |
| they | have rejected |
Imperfect
| I | rejected |
| you | rejected |
| he;she;it | rejected |
| we | rejected |
| you | rejected |
| they | rejected |
Pluperfect
| I | had rejected |
| you | had rejected |
| he;she;it | had rejected |
| we | had rejected |
| you | had rejected |
| they | had rejected |
Conditional
Present
| I | would reject |
| you | would reject |
| he;she;it | would reject |
| we | would reject |
| you | would reject |
| they | would reject |
Perfect
| I | would have rejected |
| you | would have rejected |
| he;she;it | would have rejected |
| we | would have rejected |
| you | would have rejected |
| they | would have rejected |
Imperative
| you | reject |
| we | Let's reject |
| you | reject |
Verbs conjugated like 'reject'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'reject'
deject,
eject,
reeject,
refect,
rejet,
resect,
abject,
adject,
defect,
detect,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- refuse
- decline, deny, renounce, repel, rebuff, repudiate
- discard
- eliminate, jettison, exclude
Antonyms
- to admit to the truth
- abjure, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, confess
- to yield to persuasion; to agree to a request or demand
- decline, refuse, accede
- to give approval
- decline, deny, disapprove, disassent, dissent, object, oppose, assent
- refuse
- allow, admit, assent, approve
- discard
- keep, retain, embrace, seek
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1415, from L. rejectus, pp. of reicere "to throw back," from re- "back" + -icere, comb. form of jacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). The noun is first recorded 1555; rare before 20c. Rejection in the psychological sense, relating to parenting, is recorded from 1931.
2. From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin reiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] person once, she can recognise him or her after almost any interval. This gentleman had been in her company, I believe, but very seldom, and certainly had not seen her for many months. My hand she rejected at once, as she does that of any man who is a stranger to her. But she retained my wife 's with evident pleasure, kissed her, and examined her dress with a girl 's curiosity and interest.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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He came again, and again, and again, and was so very earnest and importunate, that at last they took counsel together, and said, ‘He will certainly qualify himself for admission, if we reject him any more. Let us shut him up. He will soon be glad to go away, and then we shall get rid of him. ’ So they made him sign a statement which would prevent his ever sustaining an action for false [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] he presented himself to take and pay for his passage, it had been suggested to him that being an able seaman he might as well work it and save the money, but this piece of advice he very indignantly rejected: saying, ‘He 'd be damned but for once he 'd go aboard ship, as a gentleman. ’ Accordingly, they took his money, but he no sooner came aboard, than he stowed his kit in the forecastle, arranged to [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] imagined and readily understood. Also, how heartily we drank the captain 's health that day at dinner; and how restless we became about packing up: and how two or three of the most sanguine spirits rejected the idea of going to bed at all that night as something it was not worth while to do, so near the shore, but went nevertheless, and slept soundly; and how to be so near our journey 's end, was like [...]
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[...] last. Such defects as are perceptible in the national manners, seem, to me, to be referable, in a great degree, to this cause: which has generated a dull, sullen persistence in coarse usages, and rejected the graces of life as undeserving of attention. There is no doubt that Washington, who was always most scrupulous and exact on points of ceremony, perceived the tendency towards this mistake, even [...]
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