rebuttal
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
Types & categories
- refutation hypernym
Related & opposite
- refute derivation
Sense 2 noun
(law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
Types & categories
- pleading hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | refute |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | refutation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | refute |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pleading |