Refutation Synonyms

rĭ-fyo͝otl
The act of determining that something is false
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. disproof
  2. rebuttal
  3. confutation
  4. argument
  5. falsification
  6. contradiction
  7. falsifying
  8. elenchus
  9. refutal
The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. defense
  2. defence
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Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. refutative
  2. refutatory
  3. refuting

Words Related to Refutation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. denial
  2. refusal
  3. natural theology
  4. theism
  5. explication
  6. atheism
  7. hegelianism
  8. exegesis
  9. inerrancy
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Refutation Sentence Examples

  • The second part is the refutation of the doctrines of John XXII.

  • The work is professedly a refutation of Hutcheson, but is rather constructive than polemical.

  • The next year (1540) he published a refutation of the attacks upon his doctrine with a more elaborate exposition of it, under the title Grosse Confession.

  • His early friend and school companion, Adelmann, archdeacon of Liege, wrote to him letters of expostulation on the subject of this report in 1046 and 1048; and a bishop, Hugo of Langres, wrote (about 1049) a refutation of the views which he had himself heard Berengar express in conversation.

  • Such vagaries require no refutation.

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