481 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɹɪfjˈuːsə͡l], [ ɹɪfjˈuːsə‍l], [ ɹ_ɪ_f_j_ˈuː_s_əl]

Similar words for refusal:

• abnegation (noun)
• ban (noun)
• brush-off (noun)
• denial (noun)
• disallowance (noun)
• dissent (noun)
• disuse (noun)
• exclusion (noun)
• first refusal (noun)
• imperviousness (noun)
• insusceptibility (noun)
• negation (noun)
• noncompliance (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• prohibition (noun)
• quitclaim (noun)
• rebuff (noun)
• rebuke (noun)
• refusal (noun)
• refutation (noun)
• renunciation (noun)
• repulsion (noun)
• resistance (noun)
• thumbs down (noun)
• waiver (noun)
• repulsing (verb)
• other synonyms
• contradiction
• dissent
• elimination
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for refusal

Homophones for refusal

Hypernyms for refusal

Hyponyms for refusal

Synonyms for Refusal:

• n.

  •
  • resistance,
  • challenge,
  • silence.
  •
  • affirm.
  •
  • accept.
  • abnegation (noun)
  • giving up,
  • abandonment,
  • surrender,
  • abstinence,
  • sacrifice,
  • temperance,
  • relinquishment,
  • stonewall,
  • self-denial.
  • ban (noun)
  • stoppage,
  • boycott,
  • censorship,
  • suppression,
  • out of bounds,
  • restriction,
  • injunction.
  • brush-off (noun)
  • brush-off.
  • denial (noun)
  • disavowal,
  • repudiation,
  • veto,
  • contradiction.
  • disallowance (noun)
  • dis allowances,
  • dis-allowance,
  • dis-allowances,
  • dis allowance.
  • dissent (noun)
  • discord,
  • difference,
  • dissension,
  • conflict,
  • spat,
  • protest,
  • hassle,
  • schism,
  • denial,
  • opposition,
  • objection,
  • contention,
  • variance,
  • strife,
  • bone of contention,
  • bone,
  • dissidence,
  • split,
  • disunity,
  • disaccord,
  • heresy.
  • disuse (noun)
  • desuetude,
  • disuse,
  • Rustiness,
  • obsoleteness,
  • rejection,
  • desertion.
  • exclusion (noun)
  • elimination,
  • discharge,
  • bar,
  • coventry,
  • prevention,
  • suspension,
  • preclusion,
  • lockout,
  • excommunication,
  • exception,
  • debarment,
  • segregation,
  • blackball,
  • ousting,
  • Nonadmission,
  • removal,
  • occlusion,
  • keeping out,
  • Interdicting,
  • omission,
  • cut,
  • relegations,
  • ostracism,
  • blockade,
  • lockouts,
  • eviction,
  • dismissal,
  • ejection,
  • Debarring,
  • relegation,
  • interdict,
  • separation.
  • first refusal (noun)
  • first-refusal,
  • prior right purchase,
  • right preemption,
  • first options.
  • imperviousness (noun)
  • un susceptibility,
  • un-susceptibilities,
  • un-susceptibility,
  • un susceptibilities.
  • insusceptibility (noun)
  • in susceptibility,
  • in-susceptibility,
  • in-susceptibilities,
  • in susceptibilities.
  • negation (noun)
  • blank,
  • vacuity,
  • cancellation,
  • antithesis,
  • opposite,
  • inverses,
  • nothingness,
  • void,
  • counterpart,
  • converse,
  • Contraries,
  • nullity,
  • reverse,
  • inverse,
  • forget it,
  • NOS,
  • Negatory,
  • Non-existence,
  • disavowals,
  • nonexistence,
  • neutralization,
  • neutralizations,
  • contrary,
  • nullification,
  • Gainsaying,
  • antonym.
  • noncompliance (noun)
  • non-compliance.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • quitclaim,
  • slap in the face,
  • thumbs-down,
  • Misbelief,
  • noncompliance,
  • brushoff,
  • first option,
  • slap in face,
  • renunciation,
  • objurgation,
  • Refutal,
  • objurgations,
  • no-nos,
  • repulse,
  • a thou-shalt-not,
  • don't,
  • rebuff,
  • kick in teeth,
  • Nonconcurrence,
  • putdown,
  • refusal,
  • negation,
  • no-no's,
  • prior right of purchase,
  • confutation,
  • clinker,
  • forbearance,
  • eschewal,
  • kick in the teeth,
  • talking to,
  • disproof,
  • off limits,
  • setting aside,
  • unorthodoxies,
  • right of preemption,
  • negative,
  • hard times,
  • taboo,
  • first refusal,
  • chewing-out,
  • forbiddings,
  • nixing,
  • flak,
  • don'ts,
  • nothing doing,
  • abnegation,
  • clinkers,
  • sour note,
  • dissent,
  • waiver,
  • non-conformity,
  • hard time,
  • no-no,
  • disproofs,
  • far cry,
  • reproval,
  • DONT,
  • earful,
  • telling-off,
  • poles apart,
  • unorthodoxy,
  • nonagreement,
  • chidings,
  • talking-to,
  • Nope,
  • proscription,
  • bone to pick,
  • go-by,
  • bawling-out,
  • goby,
  • slap the face,
  • heterodoxies,
  • refutation,
  • heterodoxy,
  • exclusion,
  • nix,
  • repulsion,
  • ban,
  • interdiction,
  • rebuke,
  • nonconformism,
  • prohibition,
  • restrictions.
  • prohibition (noun)
  • inhibition,
  • constraint,
  • curtailment,
  • restraint,
  • Disallowance,
  • forbiddance,
  • disapproval.
  • quitclaim (noun)
  • Demission.
  • rebuff (noun)
  • insult,
  • reprimand.
  • rebuke (noun)
  • affliction,
  • punishment,
  • berating,
  • admonishment,
  • lecture,
  • row,
  • correction,
  • rap,
  • censure,
  • castigation,
  • reproach,
  • going-over,
  • lesson,
  • chiding,
  • dressing-down,
  • upbraiding,
  • reprehension,
  • tongue-lashing,
  • reproof,
  • condemnation,
  • comeuppance,
  • scolding,
  • blame,
  • expostulation,
  • rating,
  • admonition.
  • refusal (noun)
  • disagreement,
  • disdain,
  • thumbs down,
  • disinclination,
  • renouncement,
  • declination.
  • refutation (noun)
  • confutations,
  • refutals.
  • renunciation (noun)
  • self-sacrifice,
  • self-abnegation,
  • renouncements.
  • repulsion (noun)
  • dis taste,
  • dis-relish,
  • dis-taste,
  • re volt,
  • dis-tastes,
  • dis tastes,
  • dis relishes,
  • re volts,
  • dis-relishes,
  • re-volt,
  • re-volts,
  • dis relish.
  • resistance (noun)
  • impeding,
  • imperviousness,
  • striking back,
  • retardation,
  • impedances,
  • impedance.
  • thumbs down (noun)
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • declinings.
  • waiver (noun)
  • foregoings,
  • fore going,
  • fore goings,
  • tablings,
  • setting asides,
  • fore-goings,
  • fore-going.

• v.

  • repulsing (verb)
  • repelling.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • embargo,
  • nay,
  • turndown,
  • appeal.
  •
  • getting,
  • limitation,
  • no.,
  • enjoyment.
  •
  • revolt.
  • contradiction
  • contravention.
  • dissent
  • nonconformity.
  • elimination
  • disqualification.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • futures contract,
  • Sulks,
  • Renitency,
  • turn down,
  • check,
  • failure,
  • put,
  • discountenance,
  • Indisposedness,
  • Incompliance,
  • sulk,
  • declension,
  • Refusing,
  • discard,
  • index,
  • obstinacy,
  • Spurning,
  • act of declining,
  • Renouncing,
  • passing by,
  • decline,
  • fractiousness,
  • intractableness,
  • stubbornness,
  • statute,
  • privilege,
  • swearing off,
  • reluctance,
  • abjuration,
  • buying,
  • index librorum prohibitorum,
  • Disrelish,
  • self-mortification,
  • no,
  • abstention,
  • purchase,
  • stand,
  • contempt,
  • sumptuary laws,
  • recantation,
  • chucking,
  • asceticism,
  • qualification,
  • refusals,
  • Emption,
  • disfavor,
  • foot-dragging,
  • crosscurrent,
  • standing against,
  • Non-observance,
  • Bucking,
  • Abjurement,
  • rebuttal,
  • hardship,
  • writ,
  • Indocility,
  • warrant,
  • privation,
  • forbidding,
  • Grudgingness,
  • distaste,
  • indisposition,
  • undercurrent,
  • Ignoring,
  • slowness,
  • heave-ho,
  • counterworking,
  • non-cooperation,
  • reject,
  • purchasing,
  • tabu,
  • regret,
  • sullenness,
  • abstemiousness,
  • recalcitrance,
  • brush,
  • suffering,
  • throwing out,
  • Declinature,
  • declining,
  • unresponsiveness,
  • reversal,
  • rebelliousness,
  • refractoriness,
  • curb,
  • repression,
  • call,
  • slight,
  • scouting,
  • despising,
  • argument,
  • disregarding,
  • option,
  • defeat,
  • self-deprivation,
  • unwillingness,
  • enjoinment,
  • contraband,
  • shopping,
  • Oppugnation,
  • Averseness,
  • unenthusiasm,
  • traversal,
  • sulkiness,
  • keeping away from,
  • Impugnment,
  • snub,
  • nonacceptance,
  • aversion,
  • Contraposition,
  • regrets,
  • nonconsent,
  • pre-emption,
  • Remonstration,
  • disclaimer,
  • uncooperativeness,
  • Disclamation,
  • Impugnation,
  • forbidden fruit,
  • despisal,
  • remonstrance,
  • antipathy,
  • Perfunctoriness,
  • ruling out,
  • withholding,
  • nihilism,
  • pass,
  • lack of enthusiasm,
  • shut out,
  • law,
  • celestial latitude,
  • prohibit,
  • Discounting,
  • Nolition,
  • question,
  • backwardness,
  • Index Expurgatorius,
  • doubt,
  • recalcitrancy,
  • defiance,
  • disownment,
  • Desisting,
  • put-down,
  • Mutinousness,
  • disposal,
  • retention,
  • knockback,
  • interference,
  • brush-off orbrush,
  • counteraction,
  • zoning,
  • chucking out,
  • Discountenancing,
  • disobedience,
  • complaint,
  • opposing,
  • demur,
  • head wind,
  • Insusceptibility,
  • opposure,
  • intransigence,
  • demurral,
  • choice,
  • discouragement,
  • cold shoulder,
  • refuse,
  • demurrer,
  • disregard,
  • brush off,
  • obstruction,
  • PROHIBITORY INJUNCTION,
  • repugnance,
  • Cursoriness,
  • deprivation,
  • crossing,
  • preemption,
  • nonobservance,
  • dislike,
  • Contraversion,
  • Renitence.

Paraphrases for Refusal:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    refuse.
  • Proper noun, singular
    refuse, rejection, refuses.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    refuse, rejection, refuses.
  • Verb, past tense
    Refused.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    denial.
  • Proper noun, singular
    denial.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    denial.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    repudiation.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    fail, reluctant, unsuccessful, unwilling, Refused, non-acceptance.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Refused, REFUS.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    abandonment, aversion, disapproval, disavowal, failure, impossibility, inability, miscarriage, negation, objection, opposition, renunciation, waiver, withdrawal, withholding, Disallowance, non-acceptance.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    reluctance, unwillingness.

Homophones for Refusal:

• revisal, rubicelle, rupicola, raffishly.

Hypernym for Refusal:

• n.

  • communication
    prohibition, regrets, repudiation, declination.

Hyponym for Refusal:

• n.

  • communication
    subject matter, substance, message, denial, content.