Synonyms for rejection
re·jec·tion

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1. rejection

   Synonyms:
   departure, egress, ejection, exclusion, exit, expulsion, refusal, withdrawal

   Antonyms:
   access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, approach, door, doorway, entrance, entrée, entry, gate, gateway, ingress, inlet, introduction, opening, penetration, portal

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1. rejectionnoun

   the act of rejecting something

   "his proposals were met with rejection"

   Antonyms:
   acceptance

2. rejectionnoun

   the state of being rejected

   Antonyms:
   acceptance

3. rejectionnoun

   (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

   "rejection of the transplanted liver"

   Antonyms:
   acceptance

4. rejectionnoun

   the speech act of rejecting

   Antonyms:
   acceptance

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1. • Act
   • Medicine
   • Organic Phenomenon
   • Situation
   • Speech Act

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1. rejectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   exclusion

2. rejectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   declination, refusal, repudiation

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1. rejectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   refusal, declination, rebuff, repulse, discarding, repudiation

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1. List of paraphrases for "rejection":

   refusal, reject, denial, repudiation, release, dismissal, rejected, discharge, rejecting, disapproval, refused, non-acceptance, discarding, refusing, opposition, releases, disallowance, refusals, non-admission, abhorrence

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How to use rejection in a sentence?

1. Stacy Kaiser:

   Fear and rejection are feelings that go along with that.

2. Grace Chimene:

   The federal Voting Rights Act must be restored to ensure that every voter in Texas... has equal access to the ballot box and is protected from unfair laws and practices that make it harder for people to vote, it is a tragedy for our democracy when state leaders choose to support a partisan agenda instead of voters when writing state election law resulting in a massive rejection of vote-by-mail ballots.

3. Nancy Pelosi:

   From the heartland of America to the coasts, American voters sent the Republican Majority a powerful message of rejection of the GOP's relentless efforts to destroy health care and reward the special interests, california Even has advanced an extraordinary set of battle-tested and diverse Democrats to the November ballot.

4. Richie Cunningham Jr.:

   The career of a working actor is essentially 95 percent rejection/failure, you audition over and over for different roles and land only some of them. You need to dust yourself off and get back on your feet daily. Being an entrepreneur has many of the same parallels. Success is always possible tomorrow.

5. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:

   Speaker Pelosi's rejection of the Republican nominees to serve on the committee and self-appointment of members who share Speaker Pelosi pre-conceived narrative will not yield a serious investigation.