Meaning and example
cast off
She renounced her husband
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.975 places repudiate in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 83.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
acrimonyUncommon
- Known by
- 83.8%
a rough and bitter manner
egregiousUncommon
- Known by
- 83.8%
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
umbrageUncommon
- Known by
- 83.8%
a feeling of anger caused by being offended
engenderUncommon
- Known by
- 84%
call forth
assuageUncommon
- Known by
- 84.1%
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.