Reverse Dictionary: REFUTE

REFUTATION, REFUTE, REFUTED

ADJECTIVES
1604 ► capable of being disproved or refuted; worthy of disapproval → IMPROVABLE obs. rare
1615 ► concerned with logical refutation → ELENCTICAL obs.
1641 ► pert. to refutation; that occupies himself with cross-examination → ELENCHICAL → rare
1754 ► capable of being refuted, liable to disproof; not proved to be true or genuine → IMPROBATIVE
1828 ► having the function of disproving; tending to refute → IMPROBATORY 
1833 ► pert. to refutation; that occupies himself with cross-examination → ELENCTIC 
1850 ► pert. to refutation; that occupies himself with cross-examination  → ELENCHIC 
1876 ► having the function of disproving; tending to refute → IMPROBATIVE 


NOUNS
1449 ► disproving; refutation → IMPROVING obs.
1551 ► disproof, confutation, refutation → IMPROBATION obs. rare
1641 ► disproof, refutation → IMPROOF obs. rare


VERBS
1440 ► to controvert, to refute; to reply smartly → REJAG obs. rare exc. Sc.
1449 ► to prove to be wrong; to disprove, to refute, to confute a person, a statement, etc. → IMPROVE obs.
1631 ► to make use of the elenchus (a logical refutation); to dispute, argue, refute → ELENCHIZE → obs. rare
1640 ► to disprove, to refute → UNBUBBLE → obs.
M17  ► to drive or force back; to repel; to repress; to refute → RETUND → obs.
1796 ► to refute, to repel → REFEL → REFELL → Sc. obs.
1892 ► to countermand; to refute → DISANNUL → Eng. dial.