REJECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rejection mean? 

• REJECTION (noun)
  The noun REJECTION has 4 senses:

1. the act of rejecting something

2. the state of being rejected

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

4. the speech act of rejecting

  Familiarity information: REJECTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REJECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of rejecting something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

his proposals were met with rejection

Hypernyms ("rejection" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rejection"):

brush-off (a curt or disdainful rejection)

avoidance; dodging; shunning; turning away (deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening)

abandonment; desertion; forsaking (the act of giving something up)

forgoing; forswearing; renunciation (the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.))

nonacceptance; turndown (the act of refusing an offer)

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

displacement (act of removing from office or employment)

Derivation:

reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)

reject (deem wrong or inappropriate)

reject (refuse to accept)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being rejected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("rejection" is a kind of...):

situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rejection"):

apostasy; defection; renunciation (the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes))

disfavor; disfavour (the state of being out of favor)

censure; exclusion; excommunication (the state of being excommunicated)

reprobation (rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell)

Antonym:

acceptance (the state of being acceptable and accepted)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

rejection of the transplanted liver

Hypernyms ("rejection" is a kind of...):

organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The speech act of rejecting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rejection" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rejection"):

renunciation; repudiation (rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid)

rebuff; repulse; snub (an instance of driving away or warding off)

short shrift; summary treatment (a brief and unsympathetic rejection)

 Context examples 

Broader expression may indicate a broader role for CD40 and CD40L in immune function and disease states such as transplant rejection and HIV infection.

(CD40L Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The risk of acute rejection is highest in the first three months following transplantation.

(Acute Rejection, NCI Thesaurus)

A new study reveals that saying sorry when making a social rejection can have the opposite effect of its intention.

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And at least she had not given him a rejection slip.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A drug used to help reduce the risk of rejection of organ and bone marrow transplants by the body.

(Cyclosporine, NCI Dictionary)

Donor tissue that is removed due to rejection.

(Explanted Organ, NCI Thesaurus)

Rejection happens when your immune system attacks the new organ.

(Organ Transplantation, NIH)

Complications of lung transplantation include rejection of the transplanted lung and infection.

(Lung Transplantation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

An image of reduced quality due to the collection or rejection of the wrong signal frequencies.

(Incorrect Filter Applied Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

Therapy used to decrease the body's immune responses, such as drugs given to prevent transplant rejection.

(Immunosuppressive therapy, NCI Dictionary)