refuteとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin refūtō

発音

• (Received 発音, 米国発音): enPR: rə-fyo͞ot, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfjuːt/, /ɹəˈfjut/
• ハイフネーション: re‧fute
• 韻: -uːt

動詞

refute (三人称単数 現在形 refutes, 現在分詞 refuting, 過去形および過去分詞形 refuted)

1. (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
   • 1791, James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.:

     After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it.

2. (transitive, proscribed) To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
   • 1791, James Boswell, The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.:

     I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

使用する際の注意点

• The second meaning of refute (“to deny the truth of”) is proscribed as erroneous by some (compare Merriam Webster,1994). An alternative term with such a meaning is repudiate, which means to reject or refuse to acknowledge, but without the implication of justification. However, this distinction does not exist in the original Latin refūtō (“oppose, resist, rebut”), which can apply to both senses.
• Refute is also often confused with rebut; a rebuttal, in formal debate terms, is a counter-refutation, and it also has a specific legal sense, though like refutation, the word has taken on the informal and disputed meaning of denial.

同意語

• (prove (something) to be false): debunk, disprove, rebut
• (deny the truth または correctness): deny, gainsay, rebut, reject, repudiate

反意語

• (prove (something) to be false): demonstrate, prove
• (deny the truth または correctness): accept, embrace

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