REFUSAL

refusal

(noun) a message refusing to accept something that is offered

refusal

(noun) the act of refusing

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

refusal (countable and uncountable, plural refusals)

The act of refusing.

(civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.

Synonyms

• (act of refusing): repudiation, abnegation, declination

Anagrams

• Laufers, earfuls, earsful, ferulas, fur seal, salufer

Source: Wiktionary


Re*fus"al (-al), n.

1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more Milton.

2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

17 June 2025

RECREANT

(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”


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