reject

Verb

reject (third-person singular simple present rejects, present participle rejecting, simple past and past participle rejected)

1. (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
   • She even rejected my improved offer.
   • One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
2. To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
3. (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
   • I've been rejected three times this week.
   • It's unexpected / It usually is / When you're rejected / Or you take a hit2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen, “Roll with the Punches”, in Two, performed by Lenka

Noun

UK/ˈɹiːd͡ʒɛkt/Australia/ˈɹiːd͡ʒekt/

reject (plural rejects)

1. Something that is rejected.
   • Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.1996, Jim Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline, page 127

   Synonyms:

   castaway

2. (derogatory, slang) An unpopular person.

   Synonyms:

   outcast, castaway, alien

3. (colloquial) A rejected defective product in a production line.
   • In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion […] would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan, as also for […] the reject china and designer-label bargains to be found in downtown discount emporia.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6
4. A rejected takeoff.

   Synonyms:

   RTO