refuted

Meaning

of Refute

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disputed exploded invalidated disprove rebut challenged canceled contradicted discredited disavowed confuted

Antonyms

maintained asserted attested avowed endorsed affirmed

Examples

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted. Vilfredo Pareto

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it. Wilhelm Steinitz

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote. Louise Slaughter

The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated. Abraham Joshua Heschel

Strikingly, no concern was voiced over the glaringly obvious fact that no official reason was ever offered for going to war - no reason, that is, that could not be instantly refuted by a literate teenager. Noam Chomsky

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion. Reinhold Niebuhr