Synonyms for Refusing:

• adj.

  •negative (adjective)
  • dissenting,
  • Denying,
  • detrimental,
  • repugnant,
  • recusant,
  • removed,
  • weak,
  • pessimistic,
  • cynical,
  • colorless,
  • naysaying,
  • Privative,
  • Impugning,
  • Disallowing,
  • anti,
  • Abrogating,
  • Contravening,
  • Disavowing,
  • balky,
  • jaundiced,
  • Against,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • uninterested,
  • Resisting,
  • opposing,
  • nugatory,
  • antagonistic,
  • resistive,
  • counteractive,
  • unfavorable,
  • invalidating,
  • Annulling,
  • gloomy,
  • dissentient,
  • unaffirmative,
  • Neutralizing,
  • Nullifying,
  • contrary,
  • con,
  • unwilling,
  • adverse.
  •noncompliant (adjective)
  • refractory,
  • irregular,
  • declining,
  • Objecting,
  • non-compliant,
  • recalcitrant,
  • belligerent,
  • truculent,
  • divergent,
  • rebellious,
  • Declinatory,
  • contumacious,
  • restive,
  • impatient.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • negative,
  • noncompliant.

• n.

  •denial (noun)
  • cold shoulder,
  • Gainsaying,
  • non-committal,
  • protestation,
  • Refutal,
  • brush-off,
  • nonacceptance,
  • turndown,
  • Rejecting,
  • Refusing,
  • no way,
  • contradiction,
  • adjurations,
  • brushoff,
  • Dismissing,
  • Abstaining,
  • prohibition,
  • veto,
  • renouncements,
  • statement abnegation,
  • disapproval,
  • disproofs,
  • Refraining,
  • adjuration,
  • refutation,
  • renunciation,
  • disproof,
  • nay,
  • rebuttal,
  • repudiation,
  • no ways,
  • Repudiating,
  • renouncement,
  • disclaimer,
  • disavowal,
  • negation,
  • forswearing,
  • prohibitions,
  • rejection,
  • non-acceptance,
  • Controversion,
  • repulse,
  • noncommittal,
  • retraction,
  • Disallowance,
  • renegement,
  • declination,
  • disavowals.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • denial.
  •traversal (noun)
  • statement,
  • Disaffirmation,
  • Disaffirmance.

• v.

  •abstain (verb)
  • refrain,
  • avoid,
  • forbear,
  • sit on the fence,
  • renounce,
  • go on the wagon,
  • cease,
  • curb,
  • give up,
  • sit on one's hands,
  • abnegate,
  • eschew,
  • do without,
  • take the cure,
  • deny oneself,
  • abjure,
  • starve,
  • constrain,
  • pass,
  • stop,
  • fence-sit,
  • refuse,
  • keep from,
  • quit,
  • forgo,
  • give the go by,
  • take the pledge,
  • sit out,
  • fast.
  •balk (verb)
  • resist,
  • crimp,
  • shy,
  • recoil,
  • shrink from,
  • cramp,
  • hesitate,
  • shirk,
  • upset apple cart,
  • flinch.
  •bar (verb)
  • eliminate,
  • circumvent,
  • segregate,
  • interdict,
  • limit,
  • hinder,
  • debar,
  • freeze out,
  • interfere,
  • exclude,
  • condemn,
  • discourage,
  • keep out,
  • prevent,
  • exile,
  • obstruct,
  • forbid,
  • enjoin,
  • ban,
  • frustrate,
  • preclude,
  • restrain,
  • override,
  • deny,
  • shut out,
  • rule out,
  • ostracize,
  • suspend,
  • boycott,
  • discountenance,
  • outlaw,
  • except.
  •boycott (verb)
  • embargo,
  • pass by,
  • proscribe,
  • prohibit,
  • withhold patronage,
  • strike,
  • blackball,
  • cut off,
  • hold aloof from,
  • snub,
  • ice out,
  • bar,
  • blacklist.
  •decline (verb)
  • beg to be excused,
  • balk,
  • gainsay,
  • bypass,
  • not hear of,
  • don't buy,
  • not think of,
  • pass on,
  • dismiss,
  • not accept,
  • abstain,
  • turn thumbs down.
  •prohibiting (verb)
  • controlling,
  • Outlawing,
  • Restraining,
  • curbing,
  • Prohibiting,
  • barring,
  • disqualifying,
  • inhibiting,
  • constraining,
  • banning,
  • Suppressing,
  • disapproving,
  • restricting,
  • Preventing,
  • forbidding,
  • blocking,
  • Curtailing,
  • Precluding,
  • Oppressing.
  •refuse (verb)
  • turn one's back on,
  • hold out,
  • set aside,
  • make excuses,
  • pass up,
  • withdraw,
  • not budge,
  • not budget,
  • turn deaf ear to,
  • shun,
  • give thumbs down to,
  • not care to,
  • ignore,
  • not buy,
  • turn from,
  • send off,
  • evade,
  • protest,
  • beg off,
  • brush off,
  • desist,
  • hold back,
  • refuse to receive,
  • dispense with,
  • send regrets,
  • nix,
  • disapprove,
  • regret,
  • dodge,
  • turn away,
  • reprobate,
  • disaccord,
  • hold off.
  •refusing (verb)
  • Disinclining,
  • Renouncing,
  • Repulsing,
  • disagreeing,
  • Disdaining.

• Other synonyms:

  •dissent
  • nonconformity.
  •Other relevant words:
  • diddle,
  • dreary,
  • arrest,
  • freeze down,
  • passing game,
  • encumber,
  • boldness,
  • shrink back,
  • dress,
  • objurgate,
  • fixed,
  • discord,
  • peaked,
  • devolve,
  • weakly,
  • falling off,
  • audacious,
  • fling,
  • reverse,
  • shut,
  • displace,
  • barricade,
  • localize,
  • objector,
  • beat,
  • shine,
  • drop dead,
  • illegalize,
  • carry off,
  • monish,
  • cross,
  • naught,
  • ruefulness,
  • falsification,
  • deduct,
  • natural,
  • nonconformance,
  • ostracism,
  • dissipated,
  • incompatible,
  • drive,
  • dingy,
  • rickety,
  • distress,
  • trailer,
  • guerrilla,
  • chorus,
  • rid of,
  • travel by,
  • toss out,
  • trade stoppage,
  • ready,
  • defraud,
  • solidifying,
  • set up,
  • exercise set,
  • scrapper,
  • authorise,
  • blockage,
  • voiding,
  • rook,
  • ricochet,
  • back off,
  • tap,
  • wicked,
  • declension,
  • conscientious,
  • cachexia,
  • nervy,
  • fall by the wayside,
  • exit,
  • deport,
  • flimflam,
  • scotch,
  • fix,
  • faint,
  • infirm,
  • neglect,
  • lower,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • get off,
  • debauched,
  • go past,
  • opposite,
  • memorise,
  • exceed,
  • protester,
  • elision,
  • warn,
  • highly strung,
  • invalidate,
  • evacuation,
  • half-witted,
  • stubborn,
  • come across,
  • plosive consonant,
  • hardihood,
  • rule in,
  • illegitimate,
  • dodging,
  • oust,
  • repent,
  • keep off,
  • recoup,
  • cut out,
  • beltway,
  • antecede,
  • dismay,
  • hap,
  • avant-garde,
  • usher out,
  • hand,
  • reasoning by elimination,
  • adversity,
  • embarrass,
  • lay off,
  • slump,
  • lagger,
  • strickle,
  • want,
  • coiffe,
  • cramp iron,
  • unpersuaded,
  • backlash,
  • rebutter,
  • lay,
  • dissenter,
  • take place,
  • measure,
  • rebound,
  • draw off,
  • warring,
  • degraded,
  • contrivance,
  • obviate,
  • hem in,
  • conceal,
  • minatory,
  • arrange,
  • pass off,
  • command,
  • submit,
  • elude,
  • belie,
  • fold,
  • excrete,
  • spare,
  • demoralize,
  • disfavour,
  • disgust,
  • cast aside,
  • drear,
  • occlusive,
  • predate,
  • nil,
  • back down,
  • lust,
  • gear up,
  • forfeit,
  • choke,
  • funk,
  • garbage,
  • forbiddance,
  • self-abnegation,
  • rearwards,
  • bridle,
  • censure,
  • fasting,
  • confine,
  • fudge,
  • wasting away,
  • remote,
  • blue,
  • occlude,
  • retain,
  • hustle,
  • unorthodox,
  • put across,
  • set down,
  • outwit,
  • solidification,
  • demarcation,
  • goldbrick,
  • curb bit,
  • rag,
  • squinch,
  • vote down,
  • start,
  • antipathetical,
  • derelict,
  • attain,
  • prejudicial,
  • defection,
  • con game,
  • libertine,
  • distribute,
  • unwell,
  • do away with,
  • diverging,
  • clear,
  • distasteful,
  • chicken out,
  • colourless,
  • layover,
  • slack off,
  • expunge,
  • determined,
  • dispute,
  • impose,
  • nobble,
  • second,
  • put off,
  • give notice,
  • part with,
  • plication,
  • excoriate,
  • start out,
  • recall,
  • financial statement,
  • maverick,
  • conflict,
  • rafter,
  • overtake,
  • full stop,
  • leave,
  • censor,
  • lead,
  • hold up,
  • placed,
  • fall out,
  • bye,
  • end,
  • fire,
  • go down,
  • slow,
  • convict,
  • pose,
  • desert,
  • overhaul,
  • grim,
  • dark,
  • located,
  • penance,
  • lawless,
  • fall,
  • guide,
  • pull out,
  • reverberate,
  • ginmill,
  • crave,
  • chance upon,
  • immobile,
  • put down,
  • disgustful,
  • disaffected,
  • sic,
  • malcontent,
  • closure,
  • aught,
  • threatening,
  • pokey,
  • adjust,
  • hitch,
  • head,
  • pass away,
  • set about,
  • baulker,
  • curtail,
  • hamper,
  • bachelor of arts in nursing,
  • letting down,
  • heterodox,
  • finish,
  • downslope,
  • halter,
  • contain,
  • diaphragm,
  • dun,
  • recantation,
  • kibosh,
  • degenerate,
  • ill-affected,
  • drop,
  • pop off,
  • break up,
  • pass around,
  • excise,
  • liberty chit,
  • backwards,
  • happen,
  • cast away,
  • electrical shunt,
  • terminate,
  • avoidance,
  • downcast,
  • defense,
  • relegate,
  • aversion,
  • beat back,
  • send packing,
  • deprivation,
  • stretch out,
  • countersink,
  • apostasy,
  • drab,
  • minus,
  • keep back,
  • blockade,
  • eradicate,
  • unpredictable,
  • antipathetic,
  • depressed,
  • impediment,
  • desertion,
  • jell,
  • dawdler,
  • readiness,
  • run into,
  • riotous,
  • disengage,
  • austerity,
  • boot out,
  • misanthropic,
  • atrophy,
  • feeble,
  • excuse,
  • flexure,
  • scrape,
  • smash,
  • wipe out,
  • scrub,
  • occlusion,
  • tighten,
  • jittery,
  • spring,
  • bound,
  • jumpy,
  • let go,
  • amex,
  • retreat,
  • disownment,
  • inert,
  • lax,
  • legislate,
  • plosive speech sound,
  • admonish,
  • determine,
  • nonconformist,
  • beleaguer,
  • confidence game,
  • turn out,
  • heavy,
  • confine to,
  • cull,
  • throw in the towel,
  • turn over,
  • freeze,
  • make it,
  • spend,
  • gloomful,
  • confining,
  • instruction,
  • stymy,
  • laissez passer,
  • turn back,
  • stretch forth,
  • avert,
  • detestable,
  • famish,
  • terminal point,
  • fallible,
  • communicate,
  • streak,
  • disadvantageous,
  • flying,
  • enforce,
  • quick,
  • projection,
  • stopover,
  • quash,
  • neglectful,
  • pull away,
  • jib,
  • abjuration,
  • barroom,
  • flip,
  • get rid of,
  • go along,
  • transcend,
  • severity,
  • place,
  • battler,
  • perverted,
  • cede,
  • unsay,
  • chuck out,
  • yard bird,
  • raring,
  • hard knocks,
  • disdain,
  • baffle,
  • cut back,
  • turning away,
  • circulate,
  • limiting,
  • stand,
  • plosive,
  • leave out,
  • drum out,
  • throw in,
  • give-up the ghost,
  • move,
  • imperfect,
  • kink up,
  • leave off,
  • retire,
  • debunking,
  • slackness,
  • parry,
  • base on balls,
  • fade,
  • prejudicious,
  • tight,
  • lapse,
  • passing,
  • survive,
  • victimize,
  • kick the bucket,
  • backfire,
  • neutral,
  • edgy,
  • negatively charged,
  • strike down,
  • deject,
  • dispirited,
  • sort,
  • light upon,
  • push away,
  • illegalise,
  • live on,
  • loathly,
  • nonvoluntary,
  • infringe,
  • walk,
  • guerilla,
  • browning automatic rifle,
  • hind,
  • confidence trick,
  • crimper,
  • chop off,
  • expire,
  • scorn,
  • sink,
  • obturate,
  • learn,
  • slip by,
  • kick out,
  • expel,
  • force back,
  • spoil,
  • muscle spasm,
  • bunko,
  • diffident,
  • handicap,
  • criminalise,
  • overreach,
  • argument,
  • cake,
  • adjourn,
  • circle,
  • decease,
  • self-discipline,
  • self-abasement,
  • break,
  • zippo,
  • regrets,
  • thought-provoking,
  • nonindulgence,
  • foreclose,
  • define,
  • block off,
  • stop over,
  • unbiassed,
  • felon,
  • overnice,
  • furnace lining,
  • localise,
  • cut,
  • limit point,
  • abate,
  • return,
  • pinch,
  • last,
  • grimness,
  • point,
  • ten-strike,
  • goose egg,
  • truehearted,
  • let up,
  • demurrer,
  • stymie,
  • severeness,
  • interpose,
  • decry,
  • stiffen,
  • give,
  • throw overboard,
  • revolting,
  • scratching,
  • crawfish,
  • offer,
  • force out,
  • full point,
  • miserable,
  • morass,
  • down,
  • food waste,
  • stratagem,
  • menacing,
  • jam,
  • misanthropical,
  • passport,
  • take issue,
  • doom,
  • perverse,
  • taproom,
  • hurt,
  • mint,
  • lot,
  • dissolve,
  • dismission,
  • condemnation,
  • poke,
  • recant,
  • strait,
  • damaging,
  • overturn,
  • shrink,
  • prissy,
  • ambitious,
  • block,
  • impede,
  • take back,
  • sacking,
  • cipher,
  • kick,
  • affect,
  • march on,
  • loose,
  • demoralise,
  • riddance,
  • withstand,
  • trammel,
  • outfox,
  • eject,
  • check,
  • disfavor,
  • crease,
  • control,
  • repercussion,
  • point of accumulation,
  • begin,
  • seth,
  • earmark,
  • counter,
  • reconcile,
  • sickly,
  • position,
  • contradiction in terms,
  • die,
  • malefactor,
  • venturous,
  • slack up,
  • crawfish out,
  • forsaking,
  • watery,
  • bunko game,
  • frizzle,
  • foul,
  • sequestrate,
  • cash in one's chips,
  • torment,
  • quagmire,
  • sinister,
  • take down,
  • criminal,
  • hindrance,
  • congeal,
  • frizz,
  • laid,
  • depress,
  • affirmation,
  • overthrow,
  • plant,
  • put,
  • go on,
  • neutralize,
  • chip,
  • waffle,
  • recede,
  • seclude,
  • self-control,
  • defiant,
  • unvoluntary,
  • null,
  • shunt,
  • move on,
  • deaf,
  • extend,
  • pull in one's horns,
  • foil,
  • go under,
  • wretched,
  • omit,
  • excision,
  • dour,
  • exacting,
  • swindle,
  • lay out,
  • coif,
  • repulsive,
  • hardened,
  • croak,
  • say,
  • throw away,
  • judgment of dismissal,
  • straits,
  • nullification,
  • deliver,
  • feebleminded,
  • inmate,
  • bring down,
  • rigor,
  • falloff,
  • chance on,
  • war-ridden,
  • egest,
  • primed,
  • project,
  • profligate,
  • overrule,
  • ailing,
  • legal community,
  • glide by,
  • work stoppage,
  • ominous,
  • contradict,
  • overstep,
  • notch,
  • lour,
  • zip,
  • assertion,
  • disabling,
  • wince,
  • zero,
  • fend off,
  • yielding,
  • distant,
  • obstinate,
  • draw,
  • remonstrance,
  • scratch,
  • get,
  • mark,
  • disregard,
  • circumscribe,
  • fractious,
  • overstrung,
  • call in,
  • deflect,
  • antedate,
  • painstaking,
  • outsmart,
  • electronegative,
  • throttle,
  • get around,
  • dismal,
  • drop out,
  • go by,
  • differ,
  • back,
  • scraps,
  • coin,
  • come to,
  • elapse,
  • asperity,
  • glooming,
  • freeze off,
  • downhearted,
  • shitlist,
  • excreting,
  • leave office,
  • baulk,
  • take away,
  • bounce,
  • hardiness,
  • ejection,
  • conk,
  • thwart,
  • discover,
  • intervene,
  • prohibition era,
  • draw in,
  • immaterial,
  • sidestep,
  • unbiased,
  • pass along,
  • occur,
  • free,
  • constrictive,
  • defence,
  • come upon,
  • head off,
  • drop-off,
  • slight,
  • skanky,
  • impinge on,
  • stage set,
  • offset,
  • timid,
  • swallow,
  • crook,
  • wait,
  • yucky,
  • push back,
  • militant,
  • miscreant,
  • let down,
  • rigour,
  • mire,
  • step in,
  • defy,
  • quail,
  • untoward,
  • slow-witted,
  • waive,
  • mountain pass,
  • go,
  • transportation,
  • bent,
  • block up,
  • slack water,
  • forswear,
  • cypher,
  • deter,
  • legal profession,
  • decline in quality,
  • decimate,
  • annihilate,
  • release,
  • deportee,
  • self-renunciation,
  • wane,
  • stripe,
  • vacate,
  • mulct,
  • poky,
  • minacious,
  • tighten up,
  • dictated,
  • uptight,
  • stand firm,
  • slow up,
  • kink,
  • resistant,
  • set out,
  • balker,
  • ring road,
  • unlawful,
  • annul,
  • go around,
  • skirt,
  • opponent,
  • demarcation line,
  • typeset,
  • die away,
  • venturesome,
  • discontinue,
  • nada,
  • take up,
  • nullify,
  • bedevil,
  • disrupt,
  • pink slip,
  • stop consonant,
  • hardening,
  • celestial latitude,
  • scheme,
  • resile,
  • drive back,
  • delinquent,
  • hedge,
  • extinguish,
  • close out,
  • dec,
  • break off,
  • collide with,
  • call off,
  • move back,
  • take leave,
  • kick back,
  • forcing out,
  • screen,
  • short-circuit,
  • take,
  • black book,
  • criminalize,
  • yardbird,
  • excretion,
  • cumber,
  • sorry,
  • relax,
  • low-spirited,
  • assume,
  • expatriate,
  • slow down,
  • sulky,
  • depraved,
  • high-strung,
  • bang,
  • remove,
  • come about,
  • sequester,
  • forgoing,
  • kerb,
  • void,
  • abhorrent,
  • snuff it,
  • allow,
  • deterrent,
  • bunco,
  • besiege,
  • gross out,
  • trade embargo,
  • nothing,
  • perish,
  • discharge,
  • extrusion,
  • firing,
  • so-so,
  • rigourousness,
  • can,
  • severed,
  • interrupt,
  • fighter,
  • cringe,
  • unaccented,
  • expostulation,
  • let go of,
  • diminution,
  • yellow,
  • stay,
  • sapless,
  • unsure,
  • surpass,
  • write down,
  • close up,
  • surround,
  • impress,
  • back away,
  • washy,
  • queer,
  • dismount,
  • descent,
  • baleful,
  • step down,
  • disagree,
  • obscene,
  • liberation,
  • hold on,
  • seedy,
  • disconsolate,
  • rearward,
  • revolt,
  • rig,
  • smasher,
  • limitation,
  • toss away,
  • wear,
  • give the axe,
  • combatant,
  • amputate,
  • duck,
  • heretical,
  • live,
  • sack,
  • waver,
  • fit,
  • take out,
  • commence,
  • neutralise,
  • unhorse,
  • band,
  • set off,
  • slake,
  • curing,
  • send,
  • forestall,
  • call back,
  • apathetic,
  • depart,
  • inhibition,
  • toss,
  • despatch,
  • fructify,
  • unfavourable,
  • excruciation,
  • nice,
  • buy the farm,
  • low,
  • memorize,
  • specify,
  • surrender,
  • run,
  • coventry,
  • forebear,
  • program line,
  • crucify,
  • loathsome,
  • drone,
  • slide by,
  • walk out,
  • drop by the wayside,
  • whirl,
  • endure,
  • impart,
  • bilk,
  • repellant,
  • worsen,
  • prepare,
  • light,
  • throwing away,
  • down in the mouth,
  • illicit,
  • frail,
  • hornswoggle,
  • lop off,
  • restrict,
  • firm,
  • advance,
  • back out,
  • sorrow,
  • cast out,
  • dainty,
  • banish,
  • insurgent,
  • hold in,
  • spasm,
  • prevention,
  • make pass,
  • bend,
  • take a hop,
  • period,
  • abandon,
  • nonconformism,
  • hunger,
  • fleet,
  • coiffure,
  • fend,
  • cachexy,
  • sentence,
  • aggressive,
  • agony,
  • ward off,
  • liquidation,
  • stave off,
  • rigid,
  • run afoul,
  • top,
  • zilch,
  • fall upon,
  • scam,
  • disconfirming,
  • reserve,
  • temporary,
  • ostracise,
  • slacken,
  • put out,
  • boundary,
  • dissolute,
  • demurral,
  • dispose,
  • give the sack,
  • turf out,
  • sting,
  • desolate,
  • ringway,
  • sieve,
  • intriguing,
  • foreswear,
  • poorly,
  • appropriate,
  • inauspicious,
  • challenge,
  • contestant,
  • saloon,
  • under the weather,
  • traverse,
  • progress,
  • falsifying,
  • ascesis,
  • situated,
  • atypical,
  • chuck up the sponge,
  • halt,
  • discount,
  • decrepit,
  • rigorousness,
  • forego,
  • precede,
  • deportation,
  • dispirit,
  • moderate,
  • fiddle,
  • keep,
  • disinherit,
  • disgusting,
  • outlawed,
  • deterioration,
  • tell,
  • intercept,
  • knap,
  • thirst,
  • pull back,
  • order,
  • expatriation,
  • fight off,
  • slip away,
  • authorize,
  • insubordinate,
  • rue,
  • woe,
  • wayward,
  • brush aside,
  • winnow out,
  • reach,
  • sullen,
  • happen upon,
  • send away,
  • decay,
  • passing play,
  • draw back,
  • protestant church,
  • catch,
  • declivity,
  • interdiction,
  • loyal,
  • hold,
  • rap,
  • crape,
  • blow over,
  • pause,
  • delete,
  • dispatch,
  • dare,
  • qualifying,
  • put away,
  • correct,
  • evanesce,
  • cast down,
  • dilatory,
  • strangle,
  • crack,
  • short-change,
  • repellent,
  • stoppage.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • elimination,
  • daring,
  • squeamish,
  • Littering,
  • Demar,
  • abandonment,
  • disapprobation,
  • push aside,
  • scorning,
  • junking,
  • swearing off,
  • withhold,
  • Jibbing,
  • Rebuffing,
  • Slumping,
  • loth,
  • dismissal,
  • abstinence,
  • expulsion,
  • averse,
  • backward,
  • protesting,
  • Dusting,
  • disapprove of,
  • self-deprivation,
  • forsake,
  • cancel,
  • relinquish,
  • abnegation,
  • scrupulous,
  • unconsenting,
  • negating,
  • privation,
  • keeping away from,
  • abdicate,
  • challenging,
  • indifferent,
  • banishment,
  • repudiate,
  • Defying,
  • Demurring,
  • negate,
  • shunning,
  • throw out,
  • reject,
  • dismissive,
  • excommunication,
  • Discarding,
  • resign,
  • louring,
  • Deflecting,
  • Abnegating,
  • giving up,
  • discard,
  • loath,
  • self-denial,
  • dissident,
  • remiss,
  • lowering,
  • QUST,
  • Decliner,
  • objection,
  • self-mortification,
  • Eliminating,
  • Fending,
  • Disclaiming,
  • unconverted,
  • Trashing,
  • Overruling,
  • Chaffing,
  • protestant,
  • Nonjuring,
  • decline,
  • disown,
  • exclusion,
  • turn down,
  • Abandoning,
  • repelling,
  • screen out,
  • disinclined,
  • disowning,
  • slack,
  • Excluding,
  • spurn,
  • involuntary,
  • Resigning,
  • suffering,
  • Vetoing,
  • lovering,
  • opposed,
  • contravene,
  • uncomplying,
  • abstention,
  • indisposed,
  • SFT,
  • averting,
  • baulking,
  • repel,
  • proscription,
  • Contradicting,
  • Jibing,
  • rebuff,
  • waning,
  • asceticism,
  • deaf to,
  • disclaim,
  • Disobeying,
  • rubbishing,
  • shy of,
  • Correcting,
  • worsening,
  • Avoiding,
  • fastidious,
  • dissent,
  • set,
  • wasting,
  • disallow,
  • bow out,
  • exception,
  • unconvinced,
  • hardship,
  • Traversing,
  • remaindering,
  • refusal,
  • scraping,
  • demur,
  • non-content,
  • retract,
  • Desisting,
  • Spurning,
  • dislike,
  • Restiff,
  • reluctant,
  • laggard,
  • balking,
  • abstemiousness,
  • DELY,
  • get down,
  • traversal.

Paraphrases for Refusing:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    refuse, refuses.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    refuse, refuses.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Rejecting.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    rebuffs.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    refusals, Rejecting, rejection, rejected.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Rejecting, unwillingness, withholding, rejection, failure, reluctance.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    relinquishing, Refraining, opposing, Resigning, Repudiating, restricting, Resisting, Renouncing, foregoing, Discontinuing, Removing, accepting, releasing, Ignoring, Revoking, agreeing, Discarding, Disposing, Sacrificing, Dismissing, Forgetting, forbidding, interfering, Canceling, Cancelling, Disallowed, Disallowing, Abandoning, repelling, Repealing, worsening, Prohibiting, Excluding, Eliminating, opting, disapplying, Waiving, Discharging, failing, Granting, dumping, Precluding, withdrawing, Depriving, countering, Neglecting, unyielding, turning, declining, saying, Abolishing, dropping, Allowing, concealing, Avoiding, Vetoing, Throwing, negating, Objecting, Outlawing, challenging, banning, blocking, barring, lacking, emitting, clearing, damaging, keeping, no, Doing, withholding, rejection.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    opposes, refutes, disapproves, Denies, dismisses, spurns, turns, declines, objects, bars, nixes.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deny.

Antonyms for Refusing:

• adj.

  • negative
    good, positive.
  • noncompliant
    obedient, willing, compliant, subservient.

• n.

  • denial
    claim, corroboration, approval, avowal, affirmation, Vouching, agreement.

• v.

  • abstain
    indulge, use.
  • bar
    advocate, permit, open.
  • boycott
    buy, support, encourage.
  • decline
    say yes.
  • refuse
    accept, allow, consent, approve, sanction, ok, offer, grant.