refutableadj.

Brit.

/rᵻˈfjuːtəbl/,

/ˈrɛfjᵿtəbl/, U.S.

/rəˈfjudəb(ə)l/,

/riˈfjudəb(ə)l/,

/ˈrɛfjədəb(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s refutabill (Scottish), 1600s– refutable.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French réfutable; Latin refutabilis.

Etymology: < Middle French, French réfutable (1552) or its etymon post-classical Latin refutabilis that may be rejected (4th cent.) < classical Latin refūtāre refute v. + -bilis -ble suffix.The pronunciation with stress on the second syllable is the only one noted until Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed., 1882), which gives both pronunciations, as do most later dictionaries.

†1. Scottish. Able to be rejected. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 38 ^v I think part of thame refutabill Of the assyis, and vtheris acceptabill Into thair steid.

2. Able to be refuted or disproved.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective] > capable of being refuted

traversable?1530

deniable1548

repugnable1578

refutable1600

improvable1604

revincible1633

confutable1638

convincible1643

rebuttable1646

overthrowable1653

disprovable1686

improbative1754

the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] > rejecting > that may be rejected

refusable1570

rejectable?1575

refutable1600

rejectible1656

1600 L. Lewkenor tr. A. de Torquemada Spanish Mandeuile i. f. 26^v Your proofe and information is not refutable.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 181 That the heart of man is seated in the left side, is an asseveration which..is refutable by inspection.

1718 G. Sutton Twelve Serm. i. 24 If not refutable by Scripture and right Reason, these [confessions] ought also to be esteem'd Doctrines of God.

1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. liv. 242 He alters the text, and creates a refutable doctrine of his own.

1802 Edinb. Rev. 1 22 It refutes the very refutable positions of Mr. Godwin.

1871 Echo 13 Apr. 2 It is not in the abstract; but only in the concrete that it is refutable.

1922 W. R. Inge Outspoken Ess. II. 19 Finitism and Infinitism are equally demonstrable and equally refutable.

1978 Verbatim Sept. 13/2 It is not designed to be refutable, and those whose interest in linguistics is confined to what is scientific..will be baffled by it.

2005 M. Mapes Truth & Duty xviii. 311 On and on went the Post's misinformed examples, each of them easily refutable.

Derivatives

reˈfutably adv. rare

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adverb] > so as to admit of refutation

refutably1806

1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 724 Speaking intelligibly, and therefore refutably, concerning the phænomena of animal life.

1976 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 34 514/2 These three statements are all more rational aesthetic history than the revisions that Murray immediately (and more refutably) supplies.

2001 Philol. Q. (Nexis) 22 Sept. 525 That charge had always been there, asserted first, most profoundly, and least refutably by Plato.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	refutable
释义	refutableadj. Brit. /rᵻˈfjuːtəbl/, /ˈrɛfjᵿtəbl/, U.S. /rəˈfjudəb(ə)l/, /riˈfjudəb(ə)l/, /ˈrɛfjədəb(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s refutabill (Scottish), 1600s– refutable. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French réfutable; Latin refutabilis. Etymology: < Middle French, French réfutable (1552) or its etymon post-classical Latin refutabilis that may be rejected (4th cent.) < classical Latin refūtāre refute v. + -bilis -ble suffix.The pronunciation with stress on the second syllable is the only one noted until Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed., 1882), which gives both pronunciations, as do most later dictionaries. †1. Scottish. Able to be rejected. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 38 ^v I think part of thame refutabill Of the assyis, and vtheris acceptabill Into thair steid. 2. Able to be refuted or disproved. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adjective] > capable of being refuted traversable?1530 deniable1548 repugnable1578 refutable1600 improvable1604 revincible1633 confutable1638 convincible1643 rebuttable1646 overthrowable1653 disprovable1686 improbative1754 the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] > rejecting > that may be rejected refusable1570 rejectable?1575 refutable1600 rejectible1656 1600 L. Lewkenor tr. A. de Torquemada Spanish Mandeuile i. f. 26^v Your proofe and information is not refutable. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 181 That the heart of man is seated in the left side, is an asseveration which..is refutable by inspection. View more context for this quotation 1718 G. Sutton Twelve Serm. i. 24 If not refutable by Scripture and right Reason, these [confessions] ought also to be esteem'd Doctrines of God. 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. liv. 242 He alters the text, and creates a refutable doctrine of his own. 1802 Edinb. Rev. 1 22 It refutes the very refutable positions of Mr. Godwin. 1871 Echo 13 Apr. 2 It is not in the abstract; but only in the concrete that it is refutable. 1922 W. R. Inge Outspoken Ess. II. 19 Finitism and Infinitism are equally demonstrable and equally refutable. 1978 Verbatim Sept. 13/2 It is not designed to be refutable, and those whose interest in linguistics is confined to what is scientific..will be baffled by it. 2005 M. Mapes Truth & Duty xviii. 311 On and on went the Post's misinformed examples, each of them easily refutable. Derivatives reˈfutably adv. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > [adverb] > so as to admit of refutation refutably1806 1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 724 Speaking intelligibly, and therefore refutably, concerning the phænomena of animal life. 1976 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 34 514/2 These three statements are all more rational aesthetic history than the revisions that Murray immediately (and more refutably) supplies. 2001 Philol. Q. (Nexis) 22 Sept. 525 That charge had always been there, asserted first, most profoundly, and least refutably by Plato. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1575
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