Synonyms for refusal
rɪˈfyu zəlre·fusal

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1. refusalnoun

   The act of refusing.

   Synonyms:
   repudiation, abnegation, declination

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1. refusal

   Synonyms:
   departure, egress, ejection, exclusion, exit, expulsion, rejection, withdrawal

   Antonyms:
   access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, approach, door, doorway, entrance, entrée, entry, gate, gateway, ingress, inlet, introduction, opening, penetration, portal

Princeton's WordNet

1. refusalnoun

   the act of refusing

2. refusalnoun

   a message refusing to accept something that is offered

Matched Categories

1. • Denial
   • Message

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1. refusalnoun

   Synonyms:
   denial

2. refusalnoun

   Synonyms:
   option, choice of accepting or declining

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1. refusalnoun

   Synonyms:
   dissent, denial, non-acceptance, negation, option, preëmption

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1. List of paraphrases for "refusal":

   denial, refusals, rejection, refusing, refused, negative, refuse, refus, unwillingness, denied, failure, rejected, non-acceptance, reluctance, negation, declination

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1. Justice Antonin Scalia:

   The Declaration of Independence, however, is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to deny or disparage other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.

2. Ken Paxton:

   The Biden Administration’s flat refusal to use funds that have already been set aside by Congress to build the border wall is not only illegal and unconstitutional. It’s also wrong, and it leaves states like Texas and Missouri footing the bill.

3. Angela Alsobrooks:

   There is no other way to justify Tom Hucker refusal to mail ballots to Marylanders, or Tom Hucker request that we, in the middle of a pandemic, ask hundreds of thousands of voters to go to crowded polling places.

4. Peter Hotez:

   This is the single largest public health failure in the modern history of the United States, certainly, in the last hundred years, and it happened because of the refusal by the White House to launch a national campaign and a national strategy against the virus. So it's beyond upsetting.

5. Capital Economics:

   Pressure on OPEC+ to return supply to the market more rapidly had been growing ahead of today's meeting, we think that their refusal to do so means that the market will remain in a deficit in [the fourth quarter], which suggests that oil prices will remain elevated for at least the remainder of this year.