What does "confutable" mean?

That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.

Confutable

Q: What is a synonym for "confutable"?

Common synonyms include: arguable, at issue, confutative, confutative, conjectural, controversial.

adj

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Definitions

Adjective

1
That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable. archaic, formal, not-comparable
"That Caucasus enjoys the Sunbeams three parts of the Nights Vigils; that Danubius ariseth from the Pyrenæan Hills: That the Earth is higher towards the North: are opinions truly charged on Aristotle by the Restorer of Epicurus; and all easily confutable falsities."

Adjective

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able to be refuted wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

arguable at issue confutative confutative conjectural controversial

Antonyms

All antonyms

inconfutable provable verifiable

Example

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"That Caucasus enjoys the Sunbeams three parts of the Nights Vigils; that Danubius ariseth from the Pyrenæan Hills: That the Earth is higher towards the North: are opinions truly charged on Aristotle by the Restorer of Epicurus; and all easily confutable falsities."

Etymology

From confute + -able.

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