Rejections

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The process of turning down or declining proposals or invitations involves instances of dismissal, which lead to decisions made against various offers or requests
2. The action of refusing to accept, approve, or agree to something involves instances of not accepting invitations, proposals, or offers while also signifying decisions made against various requests
3. Instances where offers, requests, or proposals are turned down or dismissed

Etymology: The noun "rejection" comes from the Latin verb "reicere," meaning "to throw back," built from "re-" ("back") and "iacere" ("to throw"). The Latin past participle "reiectus" passed into Medieval Latin and Old French as "rejeter," and English borrowed the word in the 1500s. Its earliest English sense was physical: throwing something out or casting it away, as when the body rejects food or a ruler rejects a measurement. The concrete sense of "thrown back" gradually gave way to the figurative one of refusing or turning something away. The plural "rejections" simply counts individual instances of that refusal, such as the letters an author collects from publishers or the proposals a committee turns down over a year.

Synonyms: dismissals, refusals, denials, turn-downs, disapprovals

Antonyms: acceptances, approvals, approvals, admissions, embraces