Word.ws English Dictionary

denegate

denegate verb: to deny, refuse or contradict.

Verb

denegate (third-person singular simple present denegates, present participle denegating, simple past and past participle denegated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To deny, refuse or contradict.

Forms of denegate

third-person singular presentdenegates
present participledenegating
past participledenegated
pastdenegated

Origin of denegate

Borrowed from Latin dēnegātus, perfect passive participle of dēnegō (“to deny”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + negō (“to say no”). Doublet of deny.

Questions about denegate

What does denegate mean?
Denegate means to deny, refuse or contradict.
What part of speech is denegate?
Denegate is a verb.
What is the past tense of denegate?
The past tense of denegate is denegated.

Words near denegate in the dictionary

  1. deneddylated
  2. deneddylates
  3. deneddylating
  4. deneddylation
  5. Denedeh
  6. denegate
  7. denegated
  8. denegates
  9. denegating
  10. denegation
  11. denegations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: denegate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “denegate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/denegate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.