reject
/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I've been rejected three times this week."
- "It's unexpected / It usually is / When you're rejected / Or you take a hit"
- "Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases."
- "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."
Etymology
From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin reiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/
- British English: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/