confute
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
prove to be false
The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- shew antonym
- confutation derivation
- confutation derivation
- rebutter derivation
- refutable derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | shew |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confutation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | confutation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rebutter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | refutable |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | negate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | explode |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | refute |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | falsify |