refutation

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
2. (countable, proscribed, uncountable) A vocal answer to an attack on one's assertions.

Concepts

réfutation

défense

objection

réfuter

répliquer

réponse

falsification

critiquer

frelatage

objecter

Synonymes

rebuttal

confutation

disproof

denial

falsification

objection

rejection

refutal

contradiction

repeal

response

retort

defence

falsifying

pleading

protest

defense

opposition

override

overthrow

overturn

playback

reaction

rebut

recantation

recission

refusal

refute

reject

rejoinder

replica

reply

reprisal

repudiation

repulsion

reversal

reversion

revocation

abolishment

space inversion

abrogation

annulment

answer

comeback

conversion

counterattack

counterplea

crackdown

cue

decline

Traductions

Widerlegung

weerlegging

confutazione

refutação

smentita

Widerspruch

refutación

αναίρεση

tekzip

yalanlama

tegenbewijs

dupliek

Einspruch

ontzenuwing

Widerrede

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from Middle French refutation (compare French réfutation, Spanish refutación, Portuguese refutação, Italian refutazione) or its etymon Latin refūtātiō, from refūtō + -ātiō. By surface analysis, refute + -ation. First attested in 1536 (in sense 1).