refusal

English

Etymology

From Middle English refusell; equivalent to refuse +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

refusal (countable and uncountable, plural refusals)

1. The act of refusing.

   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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• 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)
• 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)
• Maori: whakakorenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avslag (no) n

• Persian:

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

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

  Cyrillic: одби́ја̄ње n

  Roman: 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