hylättävä

Hylättävä is a Finnish adjective meaning "to be rejected" or "rejectable." It is used to describe items, claims, or options that are deemed unsuitable, invalid, or undesirable in a given assessment or decision-making context. The term commonly appears in analytical writing, evaluations, and administrative or legal discussions where alternatives are categorized as acceptable or hylättävät (to be rejected).

Formation and use: Hylättävä is formed from the verb hylätä ("to reject, abandon") plus the suffix -ttava, which creates adjectives meaning "that must be/should be X." The base form is hylättävä, and it inflects like other Finnish adjectives (e.g., hylättävän, hylättävässä). In practice, it often occurs before a noun as an epithet—hylättävä vaihtoehto (an option to be rejected), hylättävä väite (a claim to be rejected), or hylätty ehdotus (an already rejected proposal, when contrasted with hylättävä). Predicatively, it can appear in statements such as Tämä väite on hylättävä ("This claim must be rejected").

Usage notes: Hylättävä conveys obligation or necessity to reject rather than describing something that has already been rejected. Its opposite in meaning is often expressed with hyväksytty or hylätty, depending on context. While hylättävä can function as a noun in some contexts (rarely), it more commonly serves as an adjective modifying a noun.

See also:

- hylätä, to reject

- hylätty, rejected (past participle)

- hylkääminen, the act of rejecting

- väite, claim; vaihtoehto, option