Confute Synonyms and Antonyms

kən-fyo͝ot
To prove or show to be false
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. disprove
  2. rebut
  3. refute
  4. deny
  5. expose
  6. overcome
  7. contradict
  8. overwhelm
  9. discredit
  10. negate
  11. invalidate
  12. silence
  13. controvert
  14. defeat
  15. belie
  16. bring to naught
  17. parry
  18. vanquish
  19. demolish
  20. confound
  21. answer conclusively
  22. overturn
  23. prove to be wrong
  24. set-aside
  25. overcome in debate
  26. counter
  27. upset
  28. subvert
  29. quash
  30. oppugn
  31. argue down
  32. get-the-better-of
  33. clinch an argument
  34. show up
  35. shut up
  36. not leave a leg to stand on
  37. cut the ground from under one's feet
  38. put down
  39. surrebut
Antonyms:
  1. prove
  2. verify
  3. affirm
  4. confirm
  5. attest
  6. confirm. See syn. study at disprove.disprove
  7. endorse

Confute Sentence Examples

  • Both of these confessions were drawn up to confute the teaching of a remarkable man who had been patriarch of Constantinople, Cyril Lucar.

  • Schliemann was on several occasions in England, in 1883 to receive honours from the great universities, and in 1886 to confute, at a special gathering of the Hellenic Society, the assertion of Stillman and Penrose that the Tirynthian palace was posterior to the Christian era.

  • Albertus Magnus and St Thomas devote special treatises to an examination of the Averroist theory of the unity of intellect, which they labour to confute in order to establish the orthodoxy of Aristotle.

  • And now, for the better setting forth of his doctrines, to silence pedants, and confute malignant misinterpretation, he published a collection of his writings.

  • He was one of the disputants selected to confute the Romanists at the conference of Westminster after Easter 1J59; he was select preacher at St Paul's cross on the 15th of June; and in the autumn was engaged as one of the royal visitors of the western counties.

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