rejective
- adjective
- /rɪˈdʒɛktɪv/
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rechazante
- The rejective comments from the audience discouraged the speaker from continuing her presentation.
Money, success, looks, you know, all of these things that we look at and go those rejective measures of how attractive and confident as someone should be.
- Money, success, looks, you know, all of these things that we look at and go those rejective measures of how attractive and confident as someone should be.
Examples
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In a rejective environment, individuals often feel less valued and hesitant to share their thoughts.
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Money, success, looks, you know, all of these things that we look at and go those rejective measures of how attractive and confident as someone should be.
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Erik Erikson once observed that "as we learn to 'care for,' we also learn to exclude; and as we learn to 'take care of' our kind, we are apt to become more rejective of other kinds which we perceive to be a major danger to all that we feel obligated to protect."
Academic text (2005) -
We can summarize these views succinctly using the terms "Latino-rejective" and "Latino-sensitive." About half the Anglo sample expressed a rather negative, "Latino-rejective" view of Latinos in society.
Academic text (1991) -
We can summarize these views succinctly using the terms "Latino-rejective" and "Latino-sensitive." About half the Anglo sample expressed a rather negative, "Latino-rejective" view of Latinos in society.
Academic text (1991) -
To control the family-wise Type I error rate for the four correlations of primary interest (i.e., mathematics with each of the behavioral categories), Holm's sequential rejective procedure was used (Holm, 1979).
Academic text (2012) -
His rejective attitude towards new ideas made it difficult for the team to innovate.
Synonyms
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5.6
Acting as if someone or something is not important
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6.4
A person who strongly dislikes something and tries to avoid it
Showing strong refusal, especially in a formal statement
Antonyms
How Rejecting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rejective comes from the verb reject and the ending -ive, where -ive means 'tending to'. The root ject once meant 'to throw' and appears in words like eject and project, so rejective describes someone or an attitude that tends to refuse or 'push away' things.