Refuting

Synonyms for "refuting" (45 found)

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Closest matches (9)

apologetic confounding confutative confuting contradictory contrary

Verb(3 words)

belied contradicting controverting

Strong matches (14)

Verb(11 words)

counter counterargue countering debunk debunking denial disconfirming discredit disproof disprove disproving

Noun(2 words)

counter evidencedenying

debate

Related words (22)

Adjective(1 words)

disproving theory

Noun(3 words)

disqualifying rejecting repudiating

excusatory excusing extenuating extenuative justificatory justifying palliative refutative refutatory rehabilitative vindicative vindicatory

Verb(6 words)

oppose rebuke rebut rebuttal rebutting refutative

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actionanalytical adjectiveargument communicationcritical adjectivedebatedisconfirming adjectivediscourseevaluative adjectivelanguage useprocessverbal action

More specific

11 entries

counterargument counterclaim debunkingdebunking claimdisproofdisproving theoryrebuttalrefuting analysisrefuting argumentrefuting critiquerefuting evidence

Collocations

11 entries

refutable evidencerefutation of the claimrefute a claimrefuted allegationsrefutes the argumentrefuting argumentrefuting claimrefuting datarefuting evidencerefuting hypothesisrefuting theory

Inflections

5 entries

more refutingmost refutingrefuted refutes refutings

Derivations

6 entries

refutable refutably refutation refutational refutatory refute

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Far from refuting the thesis that race is to blame for lower IQ score, Lynn's data actually supports it.

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I'm not refuting that.

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