rejecter
Someone who refuses
A rejecter is someone who rejects—refuses, dismisses, or turns something down.
The word appears in contexts ranging from romantic rejection to quality control: She was a serial rejecter of marriage proposals, The rejecter flagged defective parts on the assembly line.
Also spelled rejector.
One who judges merit
- naysayerHabitual dissenter
- skepticOne who doubts claims
- dissenterOpponent of orthodoxy
- objectorOne who formally disagrees
detractor · cynic · opposer · denier · refuser · contrarian · veto · dismisser
One who excludes socially
- blackballerOne who votes against
- shunnerOne who avoids others
- banisherOne who expels others
- expellerMechanism that forces out
gatekeeper · bouncer · snubber · discriminator · excluder · disowner · boycotter · blocker
One who evaluates first
- interviewerOne who poses questions
- reviewerOne who assesses work
- evaluatorOne who assesses merit
- assessorOne who estimates value
judge · selector · eliminator · filterer · vetter · adjudicator · curator · auditor
critic
One who judges merit
objector · detractor · cynic · opposer · denier · refuser · contrarian · veto · dismisser · rebuffer
ostracizer
One who excludes socially
- blackballerOne who votes against
- shunnerOne who avoids others
- banisherOne who expels others
expeller · gatekeeper · bouncer · snubber · discriminator · excluder · disowner · boycotter · blocker · ejector
screener
One who evaluates first
- interviewerOne who poses questions
- reviewerOne who assesses work
- evaluatorOne who assesses merit
assessor · judge · selector · eliminator · filterer · vetter · adjudicator · curator · auditor · examiner
valve
Fluid flow controller
gate · circuit · sensor · actuator · firewall · blocker · sorter · diverter · ejector · separator
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
- resistersobjector, resister, refusenik, conscientious objector, holdout
- fear of rejectionDread of being refused
- rejection letterWritten refusal notice
- organ rejectionBody fighting foreign tissue
- social rejectionExclusion by one's peers
- transplant rejectionImmune attack on implanted tissue
- rejection slipWritten refusal from publisher
reject, rejected, rejection, rejecting, rejects, rejections, rejecters, rejectors, rejector