rebuff opposition
1rebuff — I noun admonition, censure, check, chiding, cold shoulder, condemnation, counteraction, criticism, defeat, defiance, disapproval, discouragement, discourtesy, disregard, flat refusal, insult, opposition, peremptory refusal, rebuke, recoil,… …
2rebuff — [n] turning away; ignoring brushoff*, check, cold shoulder*, cut, defeat, denial, discouragement, go by*, hard time*, insult, kick in the teeth*, nix*, nothing doing*, opposition, rebuke, refusal, rejection, reprimand, repulse, slight, snub,… …
3opposition — I noun antinomy, challenge, conflict, confutation, contention, contrariety, contrary action, contravention, counteraction, counterattack, counterplot, counterworking, denial, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, dissension, enmity,… …
4opposition — Synonyms and related words: adversary, adversity, agreement to disagree, alienation, allegory, analogy, antagonism, antagonist, antagonistic, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, antithetical, apostasy, argumentation, arrest, arrestation,… …
5rebuff — Synonyms and related words: abjuration, abjure, abjurement, backfire, backlash, backlashing, bafflement, balk, be proof against, bear up, bear up against, beat back, beat off, block, boomerang, bounce, bound, brush, brush aside, brush off, brush… …
6rebuff — verb reject in an abrupt or ungracious manner. noun an abrupt rejection. Origin C16: from obs. Fr. rebuffer (v.), rebuffe (n.), from Ital. ri (expressing opposition) + buffo a gust, puff , of imitative origin …
7rebuff — I. n. 1. Repercussion, beating back. 2. Repulse, check, opposition, resistance, defeat, discouragement. 3. Refusal, rejection, repulse. II. v. a. Repel, resist, reject, check, oppose, refuse, beat back …
8France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
9resistance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. recalcitrance (see resistance); impedance (see hindrance, electronics). II Active opposition Nouns 1. resistance, opposition, oppugnance, renitence, stand, front; recalcitrance, obstinacy; impeding …
10Nick Xenophon — Senator Nick Xenophon Senator for South Australia Incumbent …
