Refusal

Noun

 * 1) the acting of refusing
 * 2) (civil engineering) depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue

Adjectives for Refusal
informed; quasi; spousal; affected; aggravated; assertive;

Thesaurus
obstinacy, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, option, passing by, perfunctoriness, preclusion, preemption, prevention, privilege, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, putting away, putting out, rebuff, rebutment, rebuttal, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recantation, refractoriness, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, renouncement, repression, repudiation, repugnance, repulse, resistance, restrictive covenants, right of emption, right of preemption, ruling out, scouting, slowness, snub, spurning, standing against, statute, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, throwing out, traversal, turning out, undercurrent, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, zoning, zoning laws, abjuration, abjurement, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, ban, brush-off, bucking, challenge, choice, chucking, chucking out, cold shoulder, contempt, contention, contraband, contradiction, contraposition, contravention, contraversion, counteraction, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, cursoriness, cut, declination, declining, denial, despisal, despising, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, discard, disclamation, discounting, disinclination, dismissal, disobedience, disownment, disposal, disregard, disrelish, dissent, distaste, embargo, emption, exception, exclusion, first option, first refusal, foot-dragging, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, head wind, ignoring, impugnation, impugnment, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, law, mutinousness, negation, no-no, nolition, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration,

Synonyms

 * repudiation
 * abnegation
 * declination

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: rifuzo
 * Finnish: kieltäytyminen, torjuminen


 * Italian: rifiuto
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu: నిరాకరణ (niraakaraNa)

Related terms

 * refuse

Anagrams

 * earfuls
 * fur seal