거절

geojeol · [거절]

refusal · rejection · denial

nounBeginner

Meanings

  1. refusal; rejection; denialAn act of not accepting the request, proposal or gift from another person.

Written Forms

거절Hangul
拒絕Hanja

Examples from Lessons (3)

I was so nervous that the male lead might get rejected when he confessed.

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Do not immediately express a refusal just because you received a difficult instruction.

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That is a good question, in Korean meetings direct rejections tend to be avoided.

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Grammar in These Examples

Korean definitions, pronunciations and learner levels are from the Basic Korean Dictionary (한국어기초사전) by the National Institute of Korean Language, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR.

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