refusiveadj.
/rᵻˈfjuːsɪv/, U.S. /rəˈfjusɪv/, /riˈfjusɪv/, /rəˈfjuzɪv/, /riˈfjuzɪv/ rare.
Characterized by refusal or exclusion (of something).
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1866 W. B. Rands Views & Opinions xvi. 193 We should bring to him [sc. the artist] a tolerably patient and receptive mind, not a repelling, refusive mind.
1901 Lancet 2 Feb. 299/2 Isolated spots refusive of carmine, the results of faulty preservation, have been supposed to indicate degeneration during life.
2004 N. Polk in N. Polk & A. J. Abadie Faulkner & War 156 The individual who refuses to die..confounds the system, clogs it up so that it must..evict or co-opt the foreign, refusive body, so that it can function properly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1866- the best things in life are free
- the best wisdoms
- the better deal
- the better foot before
- the better part of
- the better to
- the big bird
- the big cheese
- the big four
- the big guy in the sky
- the big guy upstairs
- the big muddy
- the big noise
- the big one
- the big pond
- the big three
- the bigger the better
- the bigger they are, the harder they fall
- the bird has flown
- the bird in one's bosom
- the bird in one'the bosom
- the birds and the bees
- the bitter end
- the bitumen
- the black book of lincoln's inn