Roget's Thesaurus

#536. Negation

Nouns

negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal, disclaimer; abjuration; contradiction, contravention; recusation [Law], protest; recusancy etc. (dissent) 489; flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi [Lat.]. qualification etc. 469; repudiation etc. 610; retraction etc. 607; confutation etc. 479; refusal etc. 764; prohibition etc. 761.

Verbs

deny; contradict, contravene; controvert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head. disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant etc. 607; revoke etc. (abrogate) 756. dispute; impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question, call in question etc. (doubt) 485; give the lie in his throat, give one the lie in his throat. deny flatly, deny peremptorily, deny emphatically, deny absolutely, deny wholly, deny entirely; give the lie to, belie. repudiate etc. 610; set aside, ignore etc. 460; rebut etc. (confute) 479; qualify etc. 469; refuse etc. 764. recuse [Law].

Adjectives

denying etc. v.; denied etc. v.; contradictory; negative, negatory; recusant etc. (dissenting) 489; at issue upon.

Adverbs

no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way [Coll.]; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire [Fr.], far from it; tant s'en faut [Fr.]; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively. [negative with respect to time] never, never in a million years; at no time.

Phrases

there never was a greater mistake; I know better; non haec in faedera [Lat.]; a thousand times no.