Synonyms of rejecting

rejecting

verb

present participle of reject

1

as in denying

to be unwilling to grant

rejected his request for time off

Synonyms & Similar Words

• denying
• refusing
• declining
• withholding
• disallowing
• disapproving
• forbidding
• prohibiting
• nixing
• vetoing
• restricting
• reprobating
• keeping
• banning
• proscribing
• negativing
• enjoining
• spurning
• restraining
• checking
• holding
• rebuffing
• repelling
• curbing
• constraining
• repressing
• obstructing
• impeding
• hindering
• balking (at)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• granting
• letting
• providing
• permitting
• allowing
• conceding
• supplying
• giving
• furnishing
• affording
• authorizing
• acquiescing
• commissioning
• licensing
• according
• warranting
• agreeing (to)
• OK'ing
• consenting (to)
• sanctioning
• acceding (to)
• assenting (to)
• vouchsafing

2

as in refuting

to declare not to be true

I reject the claim that I have ever lied about that

Synonyms & Similar Words

• denying
• refuting
• contradicting
• disallowing
• disavowing
• repudiating
• negating
• disclaiming
• disowning
• disconfirming
• disaffirming
• traversing
• gainsaying
• negativing
• disproving
• rebutting
• challenging
• disputing
• disagreeing (with)
• confuting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• acknowledging
• admitting
• confirming
• allowing
• accepting
• owning
• adopting
• conceding
• embracing
• maintaining
• submitting
• claiming
• declaring
• asserting
• affirming
• announcing
• avowing
• professing
• espousing
• validating
• verifying
• averring
• corroborating
• substantiating
• authenticating

3

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• discarding
• dumping
• ditching
• unloading
• losing
• abandoning
• jettisoning
• shedding
• scrapping
• removing
• eliminating
• tossing
• exorcising
• dismissing
• chucking
• casting (off)
• junking
• sloughing (off)
• flinging (off or away)
• throwing away
• shucking (off)
• disposing of
• laying by
• deep-sixing
• forsaking
• setting aside
• throwing out
• sluffing (off)
• eighty-sixing
• abdicating
• pitching
• cashiering
• abolishing
• deserting
• eradicating
• expunging
• kicking out
• extirpating
• exterminating
• extinguishing
• annihilating
• wiping out
• liquidating
• stamping (out)
• rooting (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• adopting
• embracing
• using
• employing
• utilizing
• holding
• taking on
• retaining
• keeping
• holding back

4

as in refusing

to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to

rejected his marriage proposal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• refusing
• declining
• ignoring
• denying
• dismissing
• spurning
• passing
• avoiding
• vetoing
• withdrawing
• repudiating
• disputing
• disapproving
• forbidding
• nixing
• deselecting
• reprobating
• turning down
• passing up
• throwing over
• balking (at)
• negativing
• overruling
• prohibiting
• throwing out
• disdaining
• rebuffing
• scorning
• renouncing
• proscribing
• retracting
• scouting
• disavowing
• revoking
• contradicting
• refuting
• turning one's back on
• recalling
• disclaiming
• bypassing
• sticking
• disowning
• abjuring
• forswearing
• blowing off
• disproving
• recanting
• negating
• shooting down
• forbearing
• rebutting
• controverting
• abstaining (from)
• refraining (from)
• gainsaying
• disallowing
• taking back
• detouring
• reneging
• unsaying
• disagreeing (with)
• backtracking
• backing down
• backing off

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• accepting
• approving
• receiving
• agreeing (to)
• adopting
• tolerating
• embracing
• swallowing
• taking
• agreeing
• welcoming
• selecting
• condoning
• choosing
• consenting
• assenting
• countenancing
• acceding
• supporting
• acquiescing
• espousing
• handpicking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rejecting

El-Sayed has built his campaign around bold policy proposals, rejecting corporate PAC money and casting himself as an alternative to the status quo of the Democratic Party. — Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Kalshi lost an attempt to override New York’s state gambling laws yesterday, with a federal judge rejecting the prediction market operator’s request to prevent enforcement of the rules. — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

Instead of accepting a system that minimizes their experiences and gaslights their physical pain, a new wave of female founders is rejecting these superficial fixes entirely. — Ginger Gentile, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Questioning, if not rejecting, established Christian doctrine, Ahab also comes to regard Moby Dick as the outward and visible sign, the physical embodiment of the indifference or, worse, utter malignity inherent in the universe. — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

The Supreme Court left that order in place, rejecting a request to intervene that was made by an internet technology trade group, a student group and two teenagers who use apps for art and journalism. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 6 July 2026

Florida leads the nation with 375 active 287(g) agreements, and Attorney General James Uthmeier has previously threatened officials in Fort Myers and Key West with removal from office for rejecting such deals. — Jessica Lipscomb, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026

Counting mail ballots after Election Day Also on Monday, the court ruled that states can count mail ballots that are cast by Election Day but arrive later, rejecting a GOP challenge to Mississippi's law for late-arriving ballots. — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 June 2026

But as Chief Justice Roberts observed, the men who wrote the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution after the Civil War defined citizenship in broad terms on purpose, rejecting the views of those who wanted to limit citizenship. — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 30 June 2026