'Refusal' definitions:
Definition of 'refusal'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of refusing
noun
A message refusing to accept something that is offered
Definition of 'Refusal'
From: GCIDE
- Refusal \Re*fus"al\ (-al), n.
- 1. The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance. [1913 Webster]
- Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels, On my refusal, to distress me more? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'refusal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- 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,
- obstinacy,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnation,
- option,
- passing by,
- perfunctoriness,
- preclusion,
- preemption,
- prevention,
- privilege,
- prohibition,
- Prohibition Party,
- 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,
- Volstead Act,
- zoning,
- zoning laws