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Deserted vs Rejected - What's the difference?

deserted | rejected |

As verbs the difference between deserted and rejected

is that deserted is past tense of desert while rejected is past tense of reject.

As an adjective deserted

is abandoned.

deserted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (desert)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • abandoned
  • desolate

    • rejected

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reject)

    • reject

    English

    (wikipedia reject)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refuse to accept.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.

    • Synonyms

    * (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny

    Antonyms

    * (refuse to accept) accept, take up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is rejected.
  • An unpopular person.

    • Synonyms

    * (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alien

    Related terms

    * rejection English heteronyms