confute
Meaning of confute
verb
- prove (a person or an assertion or accusation) to be wrong.
restorers who sought to confute this view were accused of ignorance
early 16th century: from Latin confutare ‘restrain, answer conclusively’, from con- ‘altogether’ + the base of refutare ‘refute’.
Information about confute
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of confute is: confutes.
- Languages in which confute is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of confute
con-fute
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- confute is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
confute synonyms
Meaning disprove:
Meaning deny the truth of (a statement) by asserting the opposite:
Meaning make ineffective; nullify:
Meaning state that one refuses to admit the truth or existence of:
Meaning prove (a statement or theory) to be wrong or false; disprove:
Meaning claim or prove that (evidence or an accusation) is false:
Meaning deny or contradict (a fact or statement):
Meaning (of an appearance) fail to give a true impression of (something):
Meaning make or prove (an argument, statement, or theory) unsound or erroneous:
Meaning show (a belief or theory) to be false or unfounded:
Meaning cause (an idea or account) to seem false or unreliable:
Meaning make (something) visible by uncovering it:
Meaning expose the falseness or hollowness of (an idea or belief):
Meaning reject as invalid, especially by legal procedure:
Meaning deny the truth of (something):
Meaning refuse to accept; reject:
confute antonyms
Meaning demonstrate the truth or existence of (something) by evidence or argument:
Translation of confute
- Spanish: refutar
- French: réfuter
- German: widerlegen
Words that rhyme with confute
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