rejector
Someone who refuses
A rejector is someone or something that rejects—turns down, refuses, or casts aside.
The word appears in technical contexts for devices that filter out unwanted signals or materials: The spam rejector caught most of the junk mail.
For people who reject others, rejector carries a slightly clinical or formal tone compared to simply saying someone rejected something.
Habitual dissenter
- vetoerOne who overrides approval
- dissenterOpponent of orthodoxy
- objectorOne who formally disagrees
- declinerOne who says no
opposer · denier · disapprover · repudiator · spurner · resister · protester · blocker
Refusal to accept reality
- rebuffAbrupt, curt rejection
- vetoOfficial refusal to approve
- declineDecrease or refuse
- turndownAct of declining
repudiation · dismissal · spurning · nonacceptance · nay · disallowance · negation · disapproval
Closed electrical pathway
- relayStage-by-stage transmission
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- pulseArterial blood throb
- filterPorous separation device
gate · switch · component · input · output · detector · transistor · threshold
Protein targeting foreign substances
- antigenImmune response inducer
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- graftIllicit political gain
- immune responseBody fighting foreign threats
tissue typing · immunosuppression · host · donor · recipient · autoimmune · lymphocyte · T-cell
naysayer
Habitual dissenter
decliner · opposer · denier · disapprover · repudiator · spurner · resister · protester · blocker · withholder
denial
Refusal to accept reality
turndown · repudiation · dismissal · spurning · nonacceptance · nay · disallowance · negation · disapproval · objection
circuit
Closed electrical pathway
filter · gate · switch · component · input · output · detector · transistor · threshold · noise
antibody
Protein targeting foreign substances
- antigenImmune response inducer
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- graftIllicit political gain
immune response · tissue typing · immunosuppression · host · donor · recipient · autoimmune · lymphocyte · T-cell · allograft
- 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, rejecters, rejecter, rejectors, rejectable, rejectionist