Confute

Quick meaning: Confute is a verb meaning (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.

Example Sentences

bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.

We can look up something in a book and learn it perfectly well with no other motive than to confute reinforcement theory, or out of boredom, or idle curiosity.

Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […].

The conjecture of [Greenland] jointing on the east with Spitzberg, Nova-zembla, and Tartary, is pretty well, if not entirely, confuted by the new discoveries of the Dutch and Russians.

Word Forms

• confutes
• confuting
• confuted

Synonyms for confute

Depending on context, synonyms include disprove.

Antonyms for confute

Common opposites include demonstrate, establish, show, prove, shew.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disprove, refute, disproove, convince, disconfirm, improve.

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