Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to confute
Participle: confuted
Gerund: confuting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | confute |
| you | confute |
| he;she;it | confutes |
| we | confute |
| you | confute |
| they | confute |
Perfect
| I | have confuted |
| you | have confuted |
| he;she;it | has confuted |
| we | have confuted |
| you | have confuted |
| they | have confuted |
Past
| I | confuted |
| you | confuted |
| he;she;it | confuted |
| we | confuted |
| you | confuted |
| they | confuted |
Pluperfect
| I | had confuted |
| you | had confuted |
| he;she;it | had confuted |
| we | had confuted |
| you | had confuted |
| they | had confuted |
Future
| I | will confute |
| you | will confute |
| he;she;it | will confute |
| we | will confute |
| you | will confute |
| they | will confute |
Future Perfect
| I | will have confuted |
| you | will have confuted |
| he;she;it | will have confuted |
| we | will have confuted |
| you | will have confuted |
| they | will have confuted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | confute |
| you | confute |
| he;she;it | confute |
| we | confute |
| you | confute |
| they | confute |
Perfect
| I | have confuted |
| you | have confuted |
| he;she;it | have confuted |
| we | have confuted |
| you | have confuted |
| they | have confuted |
Imperfect
| I | confuted |
| you | confuted |
| he;she;it | confuted |
| we | confuted |
| you | confuted |
| they | confuted |
Pluperfect
| I | had confuted |
| you | had confuted |
| he;she;it | had confuted |
| we | had confuted |
| you | had confuted |
| they | had confuted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would confute |
| you | would confute |
| he;she;it | would confute |
| we | would confute |
| you | would confute |
| they | would confute |
Perfect
| I | would have confuted |
| you | would have confuted |
| he;she;it | would have confuted |
| we | would have confuted |
| you | would have confuted |
| they | would have confuted |
Imperative
| you | confute |
| we | Let's confute |
| you | confute |
Verbs conjugated like 'confute'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'confute'
confuse,
coelute,
commute,
compute,
concite,
condite,
conduce,
confide,
confine,
confit,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle French confuter, from Latin confūtō.
Sample Sentences
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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 […]. [1593, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence:]
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bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate. [1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:]
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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. [1767, David Cranz, A History of Greenland:]
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We can look up something in a book and learn it perfectly well with no other motive than to confute reinforcement theory, or out of boredom, or idle curiosity. [1959, Noam Chomsky, Review of Verbal behavior, in Language, volume 35, number 1, page 41:]