refusal

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English refusell. By surface analysis, refuse + -al.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭfyo͞ozʹəl, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfjuːzl̩/
• Rhymes: -uːzəl

• Audio (US):

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Noun

refusal (countable and uncountable, plural refusals)

1. The act of refusing.

   Synonyms: abnegation, declination, repudiation; see also Thesaurus:disapproval

   Your refusal to carry out your duties resulted in your sacking.

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

Derived terms

• nonrefusal
• pervasive refusal syndrome
• right of first refusal
• school refusal

Related terms

• refuse

Translations

the act of refusing

• Albanian: refuzim (sq) m
• Arabic: إِنْكَار m (ʔinkār), رَفْض m (rafḍ), إِبَاء m (ʔibāʔ)
• Azerbaijani: imtina (az)
• Belarusian: адмо́ва f (admóva)
• Bulgarian: о́тказ (bg) m (ótkaz)
• Catalan: rebuig (ca) m, refús (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拒絕 / 拒绝 (keoi⁵ zyut⁶)

  Mandarin: 拒絕 / 拒绝 (zh) (jùjué)

• Czech: odmítnutí (cs) n
• Danish: afslag n
• Dutch: weigering (nl) f, afwijzing (nl) f
• Esperanto: rifuzo
• Estonian: keeldumine (et)
• Finnish: kieltäytyminen (fi), torjuminen (fi)
• French: refus (fr) m
• German: Ablehnung (de) f, Weigerung (de) f, Verweigerung (de) f, Absage (de) f
• Hindi: इनकार (hi) m (inkār)
• Hungarian: elutasítás (hu), visszautasítás (hu)
• Indonesian: penolakan (id)
• Irish: éaradh m, eiteach m
• Italian: rifiuto (it) m
• Japanese: 拒絶 (ja) (きょぜつ, kyozetsu), 拒否 (ja) (きょひ, kyohi), 断り (ja) (ことわり, kotowari)
• Korean: 거절(拒絶) (ko) (geojeol), 거부(拒否) (ko) (geobu)
• Latin: negātiō f
• Latvian: noraidīšana f, atteikums m, noraidījums m
• Lithuanian: atsisakymas m
• Macedonian: одбивање n (odbivanje)
• Māori: whakakorenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avslag (no) n

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِنْکار (enkâr), اِمْتِناع (emtenâ')

• Polish: odmowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: recusa (pt) f, negativa (pt) f
• Romanian: refuz (ro) n
• Russian: отка́з (ru) m (otkáz)
• Scottish Gaelic: diùltadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: одби́ја̄ње n

  Latin: odbíjānje (sh) n

• Slovak: odmietnutie n
• Slovene: zavrnitev f, odklonitev f
• Spanish: negativa (es) f, rechazo (es) m
• Swedish: vägran (sv) c, avslag (sv) n
• Tajik: инкор (inkor)
• Telugu: నిరాకరణ (te) (nirākaraṇa)
• Ukrainian: відмо́ва (uk) f (vidmóva)
• Urdu: اِنْکار m (inkār)

depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue

Anagrams

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