Noun

• S: (n) rejection (the act of rejecting something) "his proposals were met with rejection"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) brush-off (a curt or disdainful rejection)
• S: (n) avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging (deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening)
• S: (n) abandonment, forsaking, desertion (the act of giving something up)
• S: (n) renunciation, forgoing, forswearing (the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.))
• S: (n) nonacceptance, turndown (the act of refusing an offer) "the turndown was polite but very firm"
• S: (n) banishment, proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
• S: (n) displacement (act of removing from office or employment)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) rejection (the state of being rejected)
• S: (n) rejection ((medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign) "rejection of the transplanted liver"
• S: (n) rejection (the speech act of rejecting)