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confutable

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.

archaic, formal, not-comparable

Examples

“That Caucasus enjoys the Sunbeams three parts of the Nights Vigils; that Danubius ariseth from the Pyrenæan Hills: That the Earth is higher towards the North: are opinions truly charged on Aristotle by the Restorer of Epicurus; and all easily confutable falsities.”
“Nor can we accept⟳ the suggestion that a sentence should be allowed to be factually significant if, and only if, it expresses something which is definitely confutable by experience⟳.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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