rejection

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 13.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of rejecting.

   My offer was met with rejection

2. noun The state of being rejected.
3. noun A blocked shot.
4. noun An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.

Similar words

reject repudiation rebuff refusal refuse disavowal repulsion deny disallowance disqualification

Often followed by

of and by is in or was region from

Word family

reject rejected rejecting rejections rejects