Definition of Confutative

1. Adjective. Able to be refuted.

Exact synonyms: Confutable, Questionable, Refutable
Similar to: Deniable
Derivative terms: Confute

Definition of Confutative

1. a. Adapted or designed to confute.

Definition of Confutative

1. Adjective. That confutes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confutative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confutative

confusingly
confusingness
confusion
confusion colours
confusional
confusions
confusopolies
confusopoly
confusticate
confusticated
confusticates
confusticating
confutable
confutation
confutations
confutative (current term)
confute
confuted
confuter
confuters
confutes
confuting
confuzzle
confuzzled
confuzzles
confuzzling
confœderacy
confœderate
confœderated
confœderates

Literary usage of Confutative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences.: (Including the Vocabulary of by William Fleming, Henry Calderwood (1881)
"—Warburton: "Albinos divides Plato's Dialogues into classes — natural, moral, dialectic, confutative t civil, explorative, obstetric, and subversive. ..."

2. Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D.: Constituting by James Waddel Alexander (1860)
"... a work of some strength, and sufficiently confutative of M., (no great task,) but hasty and often obscure. Maurice really surrenders the Trinity, ..."

3. Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D. D., Constituting by James Waddel Alexander (1860)
"... a work of some strength, and sufficiently confutative of M., (no great task,) but hasty and often obscure. Maurice really surrenders the Trinity, ..."

4. Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers by Latham Bradley, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library (1895)
"JEFFREYS, E. A confutative Biographical Notice of Julius Jeffreys. Tract. 8vo. vol. 183. Land. 1855. 8vo. JEFFRY, —. A Key to the Papers which have been ..."

5. Subject List of Works of Reference, Biography, Bibliography, the Auxiliary by Great Britain Patent Office. Library (1908)
"Cambridge, 1896. 8°. 426 pp. 801* Jeffreys, Julius. 1801-1877. A confutative biographical notice of J. J, by Lieut.-Col. E. Jeffreys. London, 1856. 8°. ..."

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