Synonyms of the word snub


SNUBCUT - DISDAIN - DISREGARD - HANDLE - IGNORE - POOH-POOH - REBUFF - REJECT - REJECTION - REPEL - REPULSE - SCORN - SHORT - SLIGHT - SPURN - TREAT

snub

  • adj. Conspicuously short.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
  • n. A deliberate affront or slight.
  • n. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
  • n. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
  • v. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
  • v. (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.
  • v. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
  • v. (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure…
  • v. (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
  • v. To sob with convulsions.

cut

  • adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
  • adj. Reduced.
  • adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
  • adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
  • adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
  • adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
  • adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
  • adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
  • adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
  • adj. Removed from a team roster.
  • adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
  • n. An opening resulting from cutting.
  • n. The act of cutting.
  • n. The result of cutting.
  • n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
  • n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
  • n. A share or portion.
  • n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
  • n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
  • n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
  • n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
  • n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
  • n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
  • n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
  • n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
  • n. A slab, especially of meat.
  • n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
  • n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
  • n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
  • n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
  • n. A haircut.
  • n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
  • n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
  • n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
  • n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
  • n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • n. A skein of yarn.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
  • v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
  • v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
  • v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
  • v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
  • v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To write.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
  • v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
  • v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
  • v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

disdain

  • n. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
  • n. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
  • v. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.

disregard

  • n. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
  • v. To ignore; misregard.

handle

  • n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
  • n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
  • n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
  • n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
  • n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
  • n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
  • n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
  • n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
  • n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
  • n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
  • v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
  • v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
  • v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
  • v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
  • v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
  • v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
  • v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
  • v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

ignore

  • v. To deliberately pay no attention to.
  • v. To pretend to not notice someone or something.
  • v. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

pooh-pooh

  • v. (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.

rebuff

  • n. A sudden resistance or refusal.
  • n. Repercussion, or beating back.
  • v. To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
  • v. To buff again.

reject

  • v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
  • v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  • n. Something that is rejected.
  • n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

rejection

  • n. The act of rejecting.
  • n. The state of being rejected.
  • n. (sports) A blocked shot.

repel

  • v. (now rare) To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
  • v. To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
  • v. To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
  • v. To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
  • v. (physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force.
  • v. To cause repulsion, cause dislike.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To save (a shot).

repulse

  • v. to repel or drive back.
  • v. to reject or rebuff.
  • v. to cause revulsion.
  • n. the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
  • n. refusal, rejection or repulsion.

scorn

  • v. (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
  • v. (intransitive) To scoff, express contempt.
  • v. (transitive) To reject, turn down.
  • v. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
  • n. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
  • n. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
  • n. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

short

  • adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
  • adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
  • adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
  • adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
  • adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
  • adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
  • adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
  • adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
  • adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
  • adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
  • adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
  • adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
  • adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
  • adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
  • adv. Unawares.
  • adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
  • adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
  • adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
  • n. A short circuit.
  • n. A short film.
  • n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
  • n. (baseball) A shortstop.
  • n. (finance) A short seller.
  • n. (finance) A short sale.
  • n. A summary account.
  • n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
  • n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
  • v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
  • v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
  • v. (transitive) To shortchange.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
  • v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
  • v. (obsolete) To shorten.
  • prep. Deficient in.
  • prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

slight

  • adj. Small in amount, gentle, or weak,; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant;…
  • adj. Not stout or heavy; slender.
  • adj. (regional) Even, smooth or level; still (of the sea).
  • adj. (obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
  • adj. (regional, obsolete) Bad, of poor quality (as, goods).
  • v. To treat as slight or not worthy of attention; to make light of.
  • v. To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.
  • v. To act negligently or carelessly.
  • v. (military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
  • v. To make even or level.
  • v. To throw heedlessly.
  • n. The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
  • n. (obsolete) Sleight.

spurn

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
  • v. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
  • v. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity).
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
  • n. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
  • n. A kick; a blow with the foot.
  • n. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
  • n. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

treat

  • v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
  • v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
  • v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
  • v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
  • v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
  • v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
  • v. To provide something special and pleasant.
  • n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
  • n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
  • n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
  • n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

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