repudiative

1. 1.

   rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning

   “a veto is a repudiative act”

   Similarrejective

Questions about repudiative

What does repudiative mean?

repudiative means "rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning".

How many syllables are in repudiative?

repudiative has 5 syllables: re-pu-di-a-tive. The stress falls on "di".

Is repudiative a common word?

repudiative 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.