Refutation Synonyms

rĕfyo͝o-tāshən
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
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

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.

  • Such vagaries require no refutation.

  • Their refutation of the Protestant positions seemed needlessly sharp to the emperor, and five drafts were made of it.

  • Each of them, the probability (chap. 8), the example (chap. 9), the proof (chap. to), the consideration (chap. 11), the maxim (chap. 12), the sign (chap. 13), the refutation (chap. 14), though very like what it is in the Rhetoric, receives in the Rhetoric to Alexander a definition slightly different from the definition in the Rhetoric, which it must be remembered is also the definition in the Prior Analytics.

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