Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to disinvite
Participle: disinvited
Gerund: disinviting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | disinvite |
| you | disinvite |
| he;she;it | disinvites |
| we | disinvite |
| you | disinvite |
| they | disinvite |
Perfect
| I | have disinvited |
| you | have disinvited |
| he;she;it | has disinvited |
| we | have disinvited |
| you | have disinvited |
| they | have disinvited |
Past
| I | disinvited |
| you | disinvited |
| he;she;it | disinvited |
| we | disinvited |
| you | disinvited |
| they | disinvited |
Pluperfect
| I | had disinvited |
| you | had disinvited |
| he;she;it | had disinvited |
| we | had disinvited |
| you | had disinvited |
| they | had disinvited |
Future
| I | will disinvite |
| you | will disinvite |
| he;she;it | will disinvite |
| we | will disinvite |
| you | will disinvite |
| they | will disinvite |
Future Perfect
| I | will have disinvited |
| you | will have disinvited |
| he;she;it | will have disinvited |
| we | will have disinvited |
| you | will have disinvited |
| they | will have disinvited |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | disinvite |
| you | disinvite |
| he;she;it | disinvite |
| we | disinvite |
| you | disinvite |
| they | disinvite |
Perfect
| I | have disinvited |
| you | have disinvited |
| he;she;it | have disinvited |
| we | have disinvited |
| you | have disinvited |
| they | have disinvited |
Imperfect
| I | disinvited |
| you | disinvited |
| he;she;it | disinvited |
| we | disinvited |
| you | disinvited |
| they | disinvited |
Pluperfect
| I | had disinvited |
| you | had disinvited |
| he;she;it | had disinvited |
| we | had disinvited |
| you | had disinvited |
| they | had disinvited |
Conditional
Present
| I | would disinvite |
| you | would disinvite |
| he;she;it | would disinvite |
| we | would disinvite |
| you | would disinvite |
| they | would disinvite |
Perfect
| I | would have disinvited |
| you | would have disinvited |
| he;she;it | would have disinvited |
| we | would have disinvited |
| you | would have disinvited |
| they | would have disinvited |
Imperative
| you | disinvite |
| we | Let's disinvite |
| you | disinvite |
Verbs conjugated like 'disinvite'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'disinvite'
disunite,
disadvise,
disentitle,
disincline,
disinhume,
disinsure,
disinter,
disinure,
disinvent,
disinvest,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From dis- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + invite.
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: uninvite (see notes)
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[B]eing the next morning assured by the Prince himself that the Maske was to be put off till Sunday the ninth of January [1625], I was, upon his Highnesse intimation, sent to disinvite them all, which I performed with the French personally, and with the rest by letter; but on Saturday re-invited them for the next day. [a. 1642 (date written), John Finett [i.e., John Finet], quotee, “[[Ben] Jonson’s Masque at Christmas, 1624–5]”, in John [Bowyer] Nichols, The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King James the First, His Royal Consort, Family, and Court, […], volume IV, London: […] J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries [of London], […], published 1828, →OCLC, page 1011:]
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[I]t is a task of ſo long ſtudy that a great part of a man's life vvould be ſpent in a vveariſome and hopeleſs endeavour to come to Faith by this tedious method; vvhich vvould both diſinvite to a purſuit; and even a diligent man may in likelihood die ere he could rationally embrace any Faith at all. [1665, J[ohn] S[ergeant], “Third Discourse. That the Three Next Properties of the Rule of Faith are Utterly Incompetent to Scripture.”, in Sure-footing in Christianity, or Rational Discourses on the Rule of Faith. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 27:]
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[M]y Lady vvould not revoke—my Lord vvould not ſubmit—the Royallies vvere to be diſinvited this morning; […] [1793, [Susannah] Gunning, “Letter V. Mrs. Oxburn to Sir Ashton Montague.”, in Memoirs of Mary, […], volume V, London: […] J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, page 48:]
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[T]he chief of the police did not see his way to providing an escort sufficiently large to conduct a party some five and twenty strong, […] So the project was abandoned, and the "disinvited" guests assembled on the upper deck of their steamer to console themselves by viewing the arrival and reception of the Khedive from that excellent vantage-ground. [1896, H[enry] D[uff] Traill, “A Khedival Progress”, in From Cairo to the Soudan Frontier, London: John Lane; Chicago, Ill.: Way and Williams, →OCLC, pages 226–227:]
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[T]his amendment fails to meet the criteria of sound and conservative legislation. First, it disinvites and discourages local initiative and secondly, without benefit of proper hearings on such a complex question, it changes the entire experience of Federal Indian law in one fell swoop. [1963 August 31 (date written), Charles E. Wingenbach, “Memorandum on the Proposed National Service Corps”, in National Service Corps: Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session on H.R. 5625: A Bill to Provide for a National Service Corps to Strengthen Community Service Programs in the United States: Part 2 […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1963, →OCLC, page 597:]
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Edwina Gately, a lay missionary who works with prostitutes in Chicago, was recently "disinvited" from delivering homilies at two parishes after the pastors received conservative complaints. [1988 May 5, Robert McClory, “The divine right: Don’t question authority: The gathering force of Catholic conservatism”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2025:]
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[Florida state senator John] Grant believes [Greg] Louganis is coming to the Tampa campus to "promote homosexuality". It apparently didn't matter to Grant that Louganis, an HIV-positive gay man, is also the first male diver to win four Olympic gold medals. […] He quickly ran into a wall of opposition from university officials, who said they had no intention of disinviting Louganis. [1997 March 4, “Swimming against the Tide”, in Judy Wieder, editor, The Advocate, number 728, Los Angeles, Calif.: Liberation Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 1:]
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Tech people rarely, if ever, have a sense of the broader applications and policy implications of the projects to which they're assigned. And the work that consumes them tends to require such specialized knowledge that to bring it up at a barbecue would get them disinvited from the next one, because nobody cared. [2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, “Beltway Boy”, in Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part 1:]
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Well-meaning people have advised me that voicing this opinion [opposition to the killing of civilians in Gaza by Israel] could lead to being disinvited from literary events and festivals, and that my career in Germany – the source of my livelihood for the last two years – might be over. [2023 October 23, Lana Bastašić, “I grew up in Bosnia, amid fear and hatred of Muslims. Now I see Germany’s mistakes over Gaza”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2025:]
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The organisers of the Berlin international film festival have disinvited five politicians from the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) from next week’s opening gala in the German capital, citing recent reports on the AfD’s alleged mass deportation plans. [2024 February 8, Philip Oltermann, “Berlin international film festival disinvites AfD politicians from gala”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2025:]