Rejective

re·ject  (r-jkt)

tr.v. re·ject·ed, re·ject·ing, re·jects

1. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of.

2. To refuse to consider or grant; deny.

3. To refuse to recognize or give affection to (a person).

4. To discard as defective or useless; throw away. See Synonyms at refuse¹.

5. To spit out or vomit.

6. Medicine To resist immunologically the introduction of (a transplanted organ or tissue); fail to accept as part of one's own body.

n. (rjkt)

One that has been rejected: a reject from the varsity team; a tire that is a reject.

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[Middle English rejecten, from Latin ricere, riect- : re-, re- + iacere, to throw; see y- in Indo-European roots.]

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re·jecter, re·jector n.

re·jective adj.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

rejective - rejecting or tending to reject; "rejective or overcritical attitudes of disappointed parents" acceptive - inclined to accept rather than reject; "she was seldom acceptive of my suggestions"