Reject vs Rebuff - What's the difference?
reject | rebuff |
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
A sudden resistance or refusal.
Repercussion, or beating back.
* Milton
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
To buff again.
As verbs the difference between reject and rebuff
is that reject is to refuse to accept while rebuff is to refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.As nouns the difference between reject and rebuff
is that reject is something that is rejected while rebuff is a sudden resistance or refusal.reject
English
(wikipedia reject)Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, denyAntonyms
* (refuse to accept) accept, take upSynonyms
* (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alienrebuff
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
- the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud