rejection

English

From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native Old English āworpennes (literally “thrown-out-ness”).

rejection (countable and uncountable, plural rejections)

The act of rejecting.
My offer was met with rejection
The state of being rejected.
(sports) A blocked shot.
(medicine) An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.

act of rejecting

Armenian: մերժում (hy) (meržum)
Bulgarian: отхвърляне (bg) n (othvǎrljane)
Catalan: rebuig (ca) m, refús (ca) m
Czech: odmítnutí (cs) n
Dutch: afwijzing (nl)
Esperanto: malakcepto (eo)
Finnish: hylkääminen (fi), hylkäys (fi)
French: refus (fr), rejet (fr)
Galician: rexeitamento (gl) m
German: Ablehnung (de) f
Greek: απάρνηση (el) f (apárnisi)
Hungarian: elutasítás (hu), visszautasítás (hu), elvetés (hu)
Indonesian: penolakan (id)
Irish: dearadh m
Italian: rifiuto (it)
Latin: reiectiō f, repulsa f
Maori: akiritanga
Old English: āworpennes f
Polish: odmowa (pl) f, odrzucenie (pl) n
Portuguese: rejeição (pt) f
Russian: отка́з (ru) m (otkáz), отклоне́ние (ru) n (otklonénije), неприя́тие (ru) n (neprijátije), неприня́тие (ru) n (neprinjátije)
Scottish Gaelic: diùltadh m
Spanish: rechazo (es) m
Telugu: తిరస్కారము (te) (tiraskāramu), తిరస్కృతి (te) (tiraskr̥ti)

state of being rejected

sports: blocked shot — see blocked shot

medicine: immune reaction to foreign tissue

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