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語源

From Latin refūtō (“refute, repudiate”).

発音

enPR: rĭ-fyo͞ot, rə-fyo͞ot

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈfjuːt/, /ɹəˈfjuːt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ɹɪˈfjut/, /ɹəˈfjut/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɹɪˈfjʉːt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɹəˈfjʉːt/
• ハイフネーション: re‧fute
• 韻: -uːt

動詞

refute (third-person singular simple present refutes, present participle refuting, simple past and past participle refuted)

1. (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.

   Synonyms: debunk, disprove, rebut, confound

   Antonyms: confirm, affirm, demonstrate, prove

   • 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. 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."

2. (transitive, proscribed) To deny the truth or correctness of (something); to reject or disagree with an accusation.

   Synonyms: dispute, deny, repudiate, rebut, gainsay, counterargue, reject

   Antonyms: affirm, accept, embrace, profess

   • 2025 December 20, Taro Kaneko, “Family ‘banned from more than 1,000 petrol stations’ amid fuel theft row”, in The Guardian‎:

     A spokesperson for VARS Technology said: “We completely refute the suggestion that our market-leading ANPR system is unreliable".

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.
• 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.

Conjugation

派生語

関連する語

アナグラム

• Fuerte, feuter, feutre

語源

From Old French refuite, from refuir (“to flee”). Compare refuge.

発音

• IPA: /rɛˈfiu̯t(ə)/

名詞

refute (uncountable)

1. refuge (state of protection or comfort)
2. refuge (place of protection or comfort)
3. A protector or comforter.

参照

• “refūt(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.