rebuff

1. 1.

   reject outright and bluntly

   “She snubbed his proposal”

   Synonymssnubrepel

   Broaderreject
2. 2.

   force or drive back

   “repel the attacker”

   “fight off the onslaught”

   “rebuff the attack”

   Synonymsrepelrepulsefight offdrive back

   Broaderfight

Other forms of rebuff

plural

rebuffs·

past tense

rebuffed·

present participle

rebuffing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rebuff

What does rebuff mean?

rebuff means "a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rebuff?

rebuff has 2 syllables: re-buff. The stress falls on "buff". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈbʌf/.

What is another word for rebuff?

Close synonyms include slight, snub, repulse, snub, repel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rebuff a common word?

rebuff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with rebuff?

1 word rhymes with rebuff. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.