denial

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
The reason for the denial is his justification of terrorist acts such as suicide bombings.

View all »
Definitions (17)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (7)

  1. noun A refusal to comply with or satisfy a request.
  2. noun A refusal to grant the truth of a statement or allegation; a contradiction.
  3. noun Law The opposing by a defendant of an allegation of the plaintiff.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (4)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (5)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Indeed, the prosecution inferred that his denial was a tacit admis­sion of guilt In his summing-up, Robert Tring ... drew the jury's atten­tion to the evidence from the bathtub. —  Disordered Minds
  • The reason for the denial is his justification of terrorist acts such as suicide bombings. —  The Jawa Report
  • In the grateful addict's new reality, he realizes that this denial is the unconscious mind's ability to completely block an addict's conscious awareness of the nature of his addictive behavior, and personality, replacing it with vivid misconceptions, created to support the addictive behavior. —  The Hive - A community site of the Modesto Bee
  • The effect is a flood of traffic to the victim's Web site, known as a denial-of-service attack. —  InfoWorld RSS Feed
  • If she said "gang-banged," her denial is accurate. —  Latest Articles
 

Tags

denial hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 156 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Used in the same contextWord Family

denial:   denials
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/dəˈnaɪəl/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a week.

Recently looked up

Rested · doggerel · peaches · legacy · husbandry

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

wub wub · merch · these grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor