What does rejected mean?
Definitions for rejected
re·ject·ed
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word rejected.
Princeton's WordNet
jilted, rejected, spurnedadjective
rebuffed (by a lover) without warning
"jilted at the altar"
Wikipedia
Rejected
Rejected is an animated film directed by Don Hertzfeldt that was released in 2000. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film the following year at the 73rd Academy Awards, and received 27 awards from film festivals around the world.
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rejected
Rejected refers to the act of dismissing, declining, or refusing to accept, consider, or allow something. It can involve the dismissiveness of unfavorable proposals, offers, individuals or even ideas based on certain inadequacies or discrepancies.
Webster Dictionary
Rejected
of Reject
Wikidata
Rejected
Rejected is an animated short comedy film by Don Hertzfeldt that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2000. It received 27 awards from film festivals around the world. Rejected has a cult following and has grown into a pop culture icon that is frequently quoted or referenced. In 2009, it was the only short film named as one of the "Films of the Decade" by Salon.com In 2010, it was noted as one of the five "most innovative animated films of the past ten years" by The Huffington Post.
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Rejected vs. Dejected -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Rejected and Dejected.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'rejected' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2602
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of rejected in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of rejected in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of rejected in a Sentence
Thankfully, a unanimous Supreme Court immediately and completely rejected this effort.
In just three short years, we have shattered the mentality of American Decline and we have rejected the downsizing of America's destiny. We have totally rejected the downsizing, we are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never, ever going back.
Remember, months ago Speaker Pelosi and Democrats rejected the Administrations previous offer of $1,200 per adult and $1,000 per child. Thankfully, shes finally stopped holding working families hostage.
I don't know how you can reach any conclusion, except that Trump had everybody in the White House to discuss it and unanimously except for one they said you shouldn't do what the one lawyer said he thought the president ought to do. The president rejected it. The President did the right thing, the president and the White House, particularly a man named Jeffrey Clark… put a full court press on the acting attorney general to try to enlist them in overturning the results of the last election.
Regrettably, Senate Republicans rejected enacting modest reforms, which even the previous president had supported, while refusing to take action on key issues that many in law enforcement were willing to address.
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