English
Etymology
From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native Old English āworpennes (literally “thrown-out-ness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/, /ɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Noun
rejection (countable and uncountable, plural rejections)
- The act of rejecting.
My offer was met with rejection
- The state of being rejected.
- (sports) A blocked shot.
- (medicine) An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
act of rejecting
- Arabic: رَفْض m (rafḍ), إِبَاء m (ʔibāʔ)
- Armenian: մերժում (hy) (meržum)
- Belarusian: адмо́ва f (admóva), адхіле́нне n (adxiljénnje)
- Bulgarian: отхвъ́рляне (bg) n (othvǎ́rljane), о́тказ (bg) m (ótkaz)
- Catalan: rebuig (ca) m, refús (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 拒絕 / 拒绝 (keoi5 zyut6)
- Mandarin: 拒絕 / 拒绝 (zh) (jùjué)
- Czech: odmítnutí (cs) n
- Dutch: afwijzing (nl) f
- Esperanto: malakcepto (eo)
- Finnish: hylkääminen (fi), hylkäys (fi)
- French: refus (fr) m, rejet (fr) m
- Galician: rexeitamento (gl) m
- German: Ablehnung (de) f
- Greek: απάρνηση (el) f (apárnisi)
- Hungarian: elutasítás (hu), visszautasítás (hu), elvetés (hu)
- Indonesian: penolakan (id)
- Irish: dearadh m
- Italian: rifiuto (it)
- Japanese: 拒絶 (ja) (きょぜつ, kyozetsu)
- Korean: 거절(拒絶) (ko) (geojeol)
- Latin: reiectiō f, repulsa f
- Macedonian: отфрлање n (otfrlanje), одбивање n (odbivanje)
- Maori: akiritanga
- Old English: āworpennes f
- Polish: odmowa (pl) f, odrzucenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: rejeição (pt) f
- Russian: отка́з (ru) m (otkáz), отклоне́ние (ru) n (otklonénije), неприя́тие (ru) n (neprijátije), неприня́тие (ru) n (neprinjátije)
- Scottish Gaelic: diùltadh m
- Slovak: odmietnutie n
- Spanish: rechazo (es) m, rechazamiento (es) m
- Telugu: తిరస్కారము (te) (tiraskāramu), తిరస్కృతి (te) (tiraskr̥ti)
- Ukrainian: відмо́ва (uk) f (vidmóva), відхи́лення n (vidxýlennja)
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medicine: immune reaction to foreign tissue