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rejective

rejective

8.3
Unwilling to accept other people or ideas
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈdʒɛktɪv/
translation icon : 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.

Examples

  • In a rejective environment, individuals often feel less valued and hesitant to share their thoughts.

  • 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.

  • 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

dismissive
vsrejective
43 5.6

Acting as if someone or something is not important

is a tendency to refuse rather than to belittle or ignore
averse
vsrejective
26 6.4

A person who strongly dislikes something and tries to avoid it

is a general tendency to refuse rather than only feel dislike
repudiative
vsrejective
  • Formal
9.9

Showing strong refusal, especially in a formal statement

is a general tendency to refuse without formal or emphatic force

Antonyms

17 3.3

Ready to say yes to an idea or request

3.6

Willing to welcome new ideas, people, or situations without judging them

8.4

Ready to try new ideas and adapt to change

How Rejecting

hostile
194 4.6
dismissive
43 5.6
rejective
8.3
doubtful
25 3.0
accepting
3.6

Surface Forms

rejective positive

Morphology

rejective = reject (transparent) = reject + ive

Meaning is directly derived from the verb 'reject' with the productive adjectival suffix '-ive' indicating 'inclined to' or 'characterized by'.

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.