English
Etymology
From Middle English refusell; equivalent to refuse + -al.
Pronunciation
- enPR: rĭfyo͞ozʹəl, IPA(key): /ɹɪˈfjuːzl̩/
- Rhymes: -uːzəl
Noun
refusal (countable and uncountable, plural refusals)
- The act of refusing.
- Synonyms: abnegation, declination, repudiation; see also Thesaurus:disapproval
Your refusal to carry out your duties resulted in your sacking.
- (civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.
Derived terms
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)
- 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)
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depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue
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