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confuted

confuted is the simple past and past participle of confute.

Meaning of confute

Verb

confute (third-person singular simple present confutes, present participle confuting, simple past and past participle confuted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
    • 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 […].1593, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence

Adjective

confuted (comparative more confuted, superlative most confuted)

  1. Disproved; refuted.
    • Even Challenger was affected by the consideration that his enemies would never stand confuted if the confirmation of his statements should never reach those who had doubted them.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of confuted

comparativemore confuted
superlativemost confuted

Words formed from confuted

Questions about confuted

What does confuted mean?
Confuted means disproved; refuted.
What is confuted the simple past and past participle of?
Confuted is the simple past and past participle of confute.
What part of speech is confuted?
Confuted is an adjective.

Words near confuted in the dictionary

  1. confutations
  2. confutative
  3. confutator
  4. confutators
  5. confute
  6. confuted
  7. confutement
  8. confuter
  9. confuters
  10. confutes
  11. confutest

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