REJECTING Synonyms: 200 Similar and Opposite Words

rejecting

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present participle of reject

as in denying

to be unwilling to grant rejected his request for time off

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as in refuting

to declare not to be true I reject the claim that I have ever lied about that

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as in discarding

to get rid of as useless or unwanted sorted through the nuts and rejected any that had cracked shells or were shattered

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as in refusing

to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to rejected his marriage proposal

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Recent Examples of rejecting Washington and some other states, however, started rejecting licensure applicants or revoking nurses with diplomas from those schools even before the investigation was made public. —

Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026 Some families are also rejecting the eye ointment. —

Duaa Eldeib, CNN Money, 8 May 2026 Environmentalists are rejecting California’s implementation of its landmark single-use plastic law taking, claiming regulators inserted loopholes favoring the plastic industry. —

Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026 According to reports from news organizations that cover the schools in local Big 12 markets from Florida to Utah, nearly all of the universities are rejecting this line of credit. —

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026 The judge responded by imposing the maximum sentence for the most serious crimes and rejecting his claims. —

N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 7 May 2026 Two companies developing a therapy for a rare blood cancer have reached an agreement with the Food and Drug Administration that walked back the agency’s main reason for rejecting the drug in January. —

Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 7 May 2026 Some families are also rejecting the eye ointment. —

Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 6 May 2026 That means rejecting violent rhetoric, rejecting conspiracy theories and rejecting the impulse to use these moments for political gain. —

The Editorial Board, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026

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In Uthmeier’s mind, the world is unfairly denying white men careers as head coaches and coffeehouse baristas.

— Scott Maxwell, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2026
In effectively denying the zoning measures sought by the county, the planning board on Wednesday reversed course on a previous 2018 approval by the same body, though with some different members, of essentially the same county plan.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026