rebuff

rebuff is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
2. noun. Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
3. transitive verb. To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.
4. noun. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

   Synonyms: slight

5. noun. an instance of driving away or warding off

   Synonyms: repulse, snub

6. verb. reject outright and bluntly

   "She snubbed his proposal"

   Synonyms: repel, snub

7. verb. force or drive back

   "repel the attacker"

   "fight off the onslaught"

   Synonyms: repel, repulse

Synonyms

slight, repulse, snub, repel

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rebuff:

buffer

Common word forms

rebuffs, rebuffed, rebuffing, rebuffable

Words from these letters

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