confute
Is it a Scrabble word? See definition, points, and words you can make.
Is confute a Scrabble word?
Word Games
- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of confute?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.Examples: "Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […]."; "bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate."; "The conjecture of [Greenland] jointing on the east with Spitzberg, Nova-zembla, and Tartary, is pretty well, if not entirely, confuted by the new discoveries of the Dutch and Russians."archaictransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary