n. the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"

n. the speech act of rejecting

n. the state of being rejected

adj. involving the mind or an intellectual process; "mental images of happy times"; "mental calculations"; "in a terrible mental state"; "mental suffering"; "free from mental defects"

adj. of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks

adj. of or relating to the mind; "mental powers"; "mental development"; "mental hygiene"

adj. of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw

n. renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others

n. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

n. the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

n. the act of abandoning a party or cause

n. the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

n. the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"

n. refusal to acknowledge as one's own

n. refusal to approve or assent to

n. the speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"

n. the speech act of negating

n. the act of disapproving or condemning

n. a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial

n. the expression of disapproval

n. harsh criticism or disapproval

n. grounds for adverse criticism; "his authority is beyond exception"

n. a statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he recommended her without any reservations"

n. the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

n. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it"

n. a vote that blocks a decision

n. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"

adj. of or being or relating to or involving cognition; "cognitive psychology"; "cognitive style"

adj. appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"

n. the state of being acceptable and accepted; "torn jeans received no acceptance at the country club"

n. acceptance as satisfactory; "he bought it on approval"

adj. involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit; "physical exercise"; "physical suffering"; "was sloppy about everything but her physical appearance"