Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

confutable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: confutable
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.

Archaic; Formal

Example Sentences

"That Caucasus enjoys the Sunbeams three parts of the Nights Vigils; that Danubius ariseth from the Pyrenæan Hills: That the Earth is higher towards the North: are opinions truly charged on Aristotle by the Restorer of Epicurus; and all easily confutable falsities."
"Nor can we accept the suggestion that a sentence should be allowed to be factually significant if, and only if, it expresses something which is definitely confutable by experience."

Etymology

From confute + -able.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: confute

Usage

Derived Forms

confutability unconfutable

Synonyms

questionable refutable confutative

Antonyms

provable verifiable inconfutable

Questions

What does confutable mean?: That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
Where does confutable come from?: From confute + -able.

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