What are some opposite words for confute?
Antonyms for confute
kənˈfyutcon·fute
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
confute
To refute and to confute are to answer so as to admit of no reply. To refute a statement is to demonstrate its falsity by argument or countervailing proof; confute is substantially the same in meaning, tho differing in usage. Refute applies either to arguments and opinions or to accusations; confute is not applied to accusations and charges, but to arguments or opinions. Refute is not now applied to persons, but confute is in good use in this application; a person is confuted when his arguments are refuted.
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Princeton's WordNet
disprove, confuteverb
prove to be false
"The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
Synonyms:
disprove
How to use confute in a sentence?
Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003:
Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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