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rebuff

The word “rebuff” has 2 syllables: re-buff

It's pronounced as /rɪˈbʌf/

What is synonym and antonym for rebuff?

In the thesaurus, “rebuff” has 57 synonyms and 25 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rebuff along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for rebuff

  • abjure
  • avoid
  • banishment
  • blackball
  • blow off
  • brush-off
  • bypass
  • cold shoulder
  • decline
  • deny
  • deselect
  • detour
  • disapprove
  • disavow
  • disclaim
  • disdain
  • dismiss
  • dismissal
  • dispute
  • forbear
  • forbid
  • foreswear
  • forswear
  • gainsay
  • ignore
  • kiss-off
  • negative
  • nix
  • ostracism
  • overrule
  • pass
  • pass up
  • prohibit
  • proscribe
  • recant
  • refuse
  • reject
  • rejection
  • renounce
  • reprobate
  • repudiate
  • repulse
  • retract
  • scorn
  • scout
  • shoot down
  • silent treatment
  • snub
  • spurn
  • stick
  • take back
  • throw out
  • throw over
  • turn down
  • unsay
  • veto
  • withdraw

Antonyms for rebuff

Meanings of rebuff

  • noun
    1. A sudden resistance or refusal.
    2. Repercussion, or beating back.
  • verb
    1. To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
    2. To buff again.

Example Sentences

  • She gave a firm rebuff to his proposal.
  • He tried to apologize, but she responded with a cold rebuff.
  • Their offer received a swift rebuff from the board.
  • The manager’s rebuff left the employees feeling dismissed.
  • Despite the rebuff, he remained determined to try again.

On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rebuff, such as: abjure, accede, accept, acceptance, acquiesce, adopt, agree.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

earful

  • account
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • adumbration
  • advice
  • affliction
  • ammo
  • announcement
  • apocalypse
  • argument
  • avalanche
  • babble
  • back-fence talk
  • barrage
  • bawling-out
  • berating
  • betrayal
  • blame
  • blather
  • blether
  • blitz
  • blitzkrieg
  • blow-by-blow
  • bombardment
  • break
  • breeze
  • broadcasting
  • broadside
  • bruit
  • bulletin
  • burst
  • buzz
  • calumny
  • canard
  • cannonade
  • cannonball
  • castigation
  • cataclysm
  • cataract
  • censure
  • chapter and verse
  • chat
  • chatter
  • chewing-out
  • chiding
  • chitchat
  • chronicle
  • clothesline
  • clue
  • colloquy
  • comeuppance
  • comment
  • communication
  • conclave
  • condemnation
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • confidence
  • consultation
  • conversation
  • correction
  • counsel
  • cry
  • cue
  • current
  • data
  • defamation
  • deliberation
  • deluge
  • dialogue
  • directive
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • dirty wash
  • disapproval
  • discharge
  • discovery
  • dispatch
  • display
  • divination
  • divulgement
  • dope
  • dossier
  • dressing-down
  • drumbeat
  • drumfire
  • encounter
  • engulfment
  • enlightenment
  • epiphany
  • epistle
  • erudition
  • excess
  • exhibition
  • exposition
  • expostulation
  • exposure
  • eye-opener
  • eyeball-to-eyeball
  • fabrication
  • falsehood
  • fame
  • fiction
  • flash
  • flood
  • flood tide
  • flurry
  • flush
  • foreshadowing
  • fusillade
  • glut
  • going-over
  • gossip
  • gossipry
  • grapevine
  • gush
  • hail
  • hard time
  • hash
  • hearsay
  • hoax
  • huddle
  • idle talk
  • illumination
  • info
  • information
  • injury
  • innuendo
  • inside story
  • inspiration
  • instruction
  • intelligence
  • interlocution
  • interview
  • intimation
  • inundation
  • invention
  • kick in the teeth
  • knowledge
  • leak
  • learning
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • letter
  • lie
  • lightning bolt
  • lore
  • lowdown
  • malicious talk
  • manifestation
  • material
  • meddling
  • meeting
  • memo
  • memorandum
  • message
  • missive
  • murmur
  • negotiation
  • network
  • news
  • note
  • notice
  • notification
  • notoriety
  • objurgation
  • oracle
  • orientation
  • ostracism
  • outburst
  • outflow
  • outpouring
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • oversupply
  • palaver
  • paper
  • parlance
  • parley
  • prate
  • prating
  • prattle
  • proclamation
  • propaganda
  • prophecy
  • publication
  • punishment
  • put down
  • rap
  • rash
  • rating
  • rebuff
  • refusal
  • remonstrance
  • report
  • reprehension
  • reproach
  • reproof
  • reproval
  • repulse
  • repute
  • river
  • row
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • salvo
  • scandal
  • science
  • scolding
  • scoop
  • score
  • scuttlebutt
  • seminar
  • shower
  • showing
  • sign
  • slander
  • slap in the face
  • small talk
  • snub
  • spate
  • speech
  • spiel
  • storm
  • story
  • straight talk
  • stream
  • suggestion
  • superabundance
  • superfluity
  • supposition
  • surfeit
  • surge
  • surplus
  • symposium
  • tale
  • talk
  • talking-to
  • tattle
  • telling-off
  • the latest
  • tide
  • tidings
  • tip
  • tittle-tattle
  • tongue-lashing
  • torrent
  • uncovering
  • unearthing
  • unveiling
  • upbraiding
  • ventilation
  • vision
  • visit
  • volley
  • whisper
  • whispering
  • whispering campaign
  • whole story
  • wire
  • wisdom
  • word

gainsaying

  • abjuration
  • abnegation
  • about-face
  • abrogating
  • abrogation
  • abstaining
  • adjuration
  • adversarial
  • adverse
  • against
  • against the grain
  • allergic
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • antagonistic
  • anti
  • antipathetic
  • antithesis
  • antithetical
  • antonym
  • antonymous
  • at cross-purposes
  • at odds
  • averse
  • backpedaling
  • backtracking
  • balky
  • battling
  • blank
  • brush-off
  • bucking
  • cancellation
  • challenging
  • clashing
  • cold shoulder
  • colorless
  • combating
  • con
  • conflict
  • conflicting
  • confronting
  • confutation
  • confuting
  • contesting
  • contradicting
  • contradiction
  • contrary
  • contravening
  • contravention
  • contraversion
  • controversion
  • controverting
  • converse
  • counter
  • counteractive
  • crossing
  • cynical
  • declination
  • defending
  • defensive
  • defiance
  • denial
  • denying
  • detrimental
  • difference
  • disaffirmance
  • disaffirmation
  • disaffirming
  • disagreeing
  • disagreement
  • disallowance
  • disallowing
  • disapproval
  • disavowal
  • disavowing
  • disclaimer
  • disclaiming
  • disconfirming
  • discrepancy
  • dismissing
  • disowning
  • disproof
  • disproving
  • dispute
  • disputed
  • disputing
  • dissension
  • dissent
  • dissentient
  • dissenting
  • enemy
  • exposing
  • facing
  • fighting
  • forget it
  • forswearing
  • gloomy
  • hostile
  • impugning
  • in opposition
  • incompatible
  • incongruity
  • inconsistency
  • inimical
  • invalidating
  • inverse
  • irreconcilable
  • jaundiced
  • nay
  • naysaying
  • negating
  • negation
  • negative
  • negativing
  • negatory
  • neutralization
  • neutralizing
  • nix
  • no
  • nonacceptance
  • noncommittal
  • nonexistence
  • nothingness
  • nugatory
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nullity
  • objecting
  • obstructive
  • opposed
  • opposing
  • opposite
  • opposition
  • palinode
  • pessimistic
  • privative
  • prohibition
  • proscription
  • protestation
  • protesting
  • questioning
  • rebuff
  • rebuttal
  • rebutting
  • recall
  • recantation
  • recusant
  • refraining
  • refusal
  • refusing
  • refutal
  • refutation
  • refuting
  • rejecting
  • rejection
  • removed
  • renegement
  • reneging
  • renouncement
  • renouncing
  • renunciation
  • repelling
  • repudiating
  • repudiation
  • repugnant
  • repulse
  • resisting
  • resistive
  • restrictive
  • retractation
  • retraction
  • reversal
  • reverse
  • revocation
  • rival
  • statement
  • statement abnegation
  • traversing
  • turndown
  • unaffirmative
  • unenthusiastic
  • unfavorable
  • uninterested
  • unsaying
  • unwilling
  • up against
  • vacuity
  • veto
  • void
  • volte-face
  • warring
  • weak
  • withdrawal

lacing

objurgation

  • accusation
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • affliction
  • animadversion
  • arraignment
  • attack
  • attribution
  • bawling-out
  • belittlement
  • berating
  • blame
  • business
  • castigation
  • censure
  • charge
  • chastisement
  • chewing-out
  • chiding
  • comeuppance
  • commination
  • complaint
  • condemnation
  • correction
  • criticism
  • damnation
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • devil
  • diatribe
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • disfavor
  • disparagement
  • dressing-down
  • earful
  • excoriation
  • expostulation
  • exprobation
  • going-over
  • hard time
  • impeachment
  • implication
  • imputation
  • incrimination
  • inculpation
  • indictment
  • invective
  • kick in the teeth
  • lash
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • obloquy
  • opposition
  • ostracism
  • pan
  • punishment
  • put down
  • rap
  • rating
  • rebuff
  • rebuke
  • recrimination
  • refusal
  • remonstrance
  • reprehension
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reprobation
  • reproof
  • reproval
  • repudiation
  • repulse
  • riot act
  • row
  • scolding
  • slap in the face
  • slur
  • snub
  • stricture
  • talking-to
  • telling-off
  • tirade
  • tongue-lashing
  • upbraiding

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