| Main Entry: | denial |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dismissal, refusal of belief in |
Synonyms: |
abstaining, adjuration, brush-off, cold shoulder, contradiction, controversion, declination, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, disclaimer, dismissing, disproof, dissent, forswearing, gainsaying, nay, negation, negative, nix, no way, nonacceptance, noncommittal, prohibition, protestation, rebuff, rebuttal, refraining, refusing, refutal, refutation, rejecting, rejection, renegement, renouncement, renunciation, repudiating, repudiation, repulse, retraction, statement abnegation, turndown, veto |
Antonyms: |
affirmation, agreement, approval, avowal, claim, corroboration, vouching |
| Main Entry: | denial |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
at issue upon, cashiered, contradictory, denied, denying, negative, negatory, recusant
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| Main Entry: | contradiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | variance to something |
Synonyms: |
bucking, conflict, confutation, contravention, defiance, denial, difference, disagreement, discrepancy, dispute, dissension, gainsaying, incongruity, inconsistency, negation, opposite, opposition |
Antonyms: |
OK, acceptance, agreement, approval, concession, confirmation, corroboration, reconcilement, verification |
| Main Entry: | deprivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking, keeping away; need |
Synonyms: |
denial, deprival, destitution, detriment, disadvantage, dispossession, distress, divestiture, divestment, expropriation, hardship, loss, privation, removal, seizure, want, withdrawal, withholding |
Antonyms: |
bestowal, endowment, giving, indulgence, offer, offering, presentation, supply |
| Main Entry: | disclaimer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repudiation |
Synonyms: |
abjuration, abnegation, clause, denial, disavowal, dissociation, renunciation, retraction, waiver |
| Main Entry: | dissent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement, disapproval |
Synonyms: |
bone of contention, bone to pick, bone, clinker, conflict, contention, denial, difference, disaccord, discord, dissension, dissidence, disunity, far cry, flak, hassle, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonagreement, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nope, objection, opposition, poles apart, protest, refusal, resistance, schism, sour note, spat, split, strife, unorthodoxy, variance |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
Antonyms: |
agreement, approval, authorization, concurrence, endorsement, ratification, sanction |
| Main Entry: | negative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contradiction |
Synonyms: |
denial, disavowal, nay, refusal, refutation |
Antonyms: |
positive |
| Main Entry: | nihilism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refusal to believe |
Synonyms: |
abnegation, agnosticism, anarchy, atheism, denial, disbelief, disorder, lawlessness, mob rule, nonbelief, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, skepticism, terrorism |
Antonyms: |
belief, faith, obedience, optimism |
| Main Entry: | nonconformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, behavior different from most |
Synonyms: |
bohemianism, breach, contumaciousness, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discordance, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, insubordination, lawlessness, mutinousness, negation, nonacceptance, nonagreement, noncompliance, nonconsent, objection, opposition, originality, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, rejection, strangeness, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness, veto, violation |
Antonyms: |
compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | rebuff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turning away; ignoring |
Synonyms: |
brushoff, check, cold shoulder, cut, defeat, denial, discouragement, go-by, hard time, insult, kick in the teeth, nix, nothing doing, opposition, rebuke, refusal, rejection, reprimand, repulse, slight, snub, thumbs down, turndown |
Antonyms: |
inclusion, welcome |