Word Meanings - REFUTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFUTABLE)

• Refragable
• Refutable
• weak
• questionable
• deniable
• fallacious
• Resistible
• Weak
• refutable
• nugatory
• trifling
• childish
• worthless

Related words: (words related to REFUTABLE)

• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• NUGATORY
  1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• REFUTABLE
  Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.
• DENIABLE
  Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• WORTHLESS
  Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win
• FALLACIOUS
  Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. -- Fal*la"cious*ly, adv. -Fal*la"cious*ness, n.
• RESISTIBLE
  Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale. -- Re*sist"i*ble*ness, n. -- Re*sist"i*bly, adv.
• REFRAGABLE
  Capable of being refuted; refutable. -- Ref"ra*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Ref`*ra*ga*bil"i*ty (-b, n.
• QUESTIONABLE
  1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak. 2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful;
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• UNQUESTIONABLE
  1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
• IRRESISTIBLE
  That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason.
• IRREFUTABLE
  Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable. -- Ir`re*fut"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*fut"a*bly, adv.
• UNRESISTIBLE
  Irresistible. W. Temple.