Opposite word to confirm

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1. confirmverb

   Antonyms:
   contradict, dispute, question, deny, disconfirm

2. confirmverb

   Antonyms:
   disconfirm, contradict, question, dispute, deny

3. confirmverb

   Antonyms:
   deny, contradict, question, disconfirm, dispute

4. confirmverb

   Antonyms:
   question, dispute, deny, contradict, disconfirm

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. confirm

   Confirm (Latin con, together, and firmus, firm) is to add firmness or give stability to. Both confirm and corroborate presuppose something already existing to which the confirmation or corroboration is added. Testimony is corroborated by concurrent testimony or by circumstances; confirmed by established facts. That which is thoroughly proved is said to be established; so is that which is official and has adequate power behind it; as, the established government; the established church. The continents are fixed. A treaty is ratified; an appointment confirmed. An act is sanctioned by any person or authority that passes upon it approvingly. A statement is substantiated; a report confirmed; a controversy settled; the decision of a lower court sustained by a higher. Just government should be upheld. The beneficent results of Christianity confirm our faith in it as a divine revelation.

   Antonyms:
   abrogate, annul, cancel, destroy, overthrow, shake, shatter, unsettle, upset, weaken

   Synonyms:
   assure, corroborate, establish, fix, prove, ratify, sanction, settle, strengthen, substantiate, sustain, uphold

   Preposition:
   Confirm a statement by testimony; confirm a person in a belief.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. confirm

   Antonyms:
   weaken, shake, upset, cancel, abrogate, repeal, annul, confute, refute

   Synonyms:
   strengthen, stabilitate, establish, substantiate, settle, prove, fix, perpetuate, sanction, corroborate, ratify

Matched Categories

1. • Affirm
   • Approve
   • Covenant
   • Religion
   • Strengthen

Princeton’s WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirmverb

   establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

   «his story confirmed my doubts»; «The evidence supports the defendant»

   Synonyms:
   actualise, realise, abide, embody, verify, get, support, stomach, defend, plunk for, hold up, substantiate, keep going, actualize, back, have, avow, fend for, patronise, stick out, assert, back up, keep, digest, nurture, keep up, corroborate, endorse, validate, reassert, hold, bear out, incarnate, affirm, swan, subscribe, brook, indorse, body forth, tolerate, suffer, endure, stand, aver, maintain, prolong, nourish, sustain, realize, patronize, underpin, plump for, patronage, put up, swear, bear

2. confirm, reassertverb

   strengthen or make more firm

   «The witnesses confirmed the victim’s account»

   Synonyms:
   support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

3. confirmverb

   make more firm

   «Confirm thy soul in self-control!»

   Synonyms:
   support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

4. confirmverb

   support a person for a position

   «The Senate confirmed the President’s candidate for Secretary of Defense»

   Synonyms:
   support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

5. confirmverb

   administer the rite of confirmation to

   «the children were confirmed in their mother’s faith»

   Synonyms:
   support, substantiate, reassert, sustain, affirm, corroborate

How to use confirm in a sentence?

1. White House spokesman Josh Earnest:

   I can confirm … that there have been conversations between White House officials and members of Congress on Capitol Hill to discuss the need to avoid a government shutdown.

2. Matthias Gorny:

   We have made several scientific expeditions off the coast of La Higuera due to the environmental importance of this place, therefore, we wanted to collaborate in the search for Itata, taking advantage of the technology we have, and thanks to the images of our underwater robot, we were able to confirm that what was there was the ship’s remains.

3. Frances Lee:

   The fact that the racial divide is so deep between the parties, and the urban-rural divide is so deep between the parties, overlaps in problematic ways with the bias in The Senate representation, and that bias in The Senate representation is also reflected in Electoral College and in the composition of Supreme Court because it is the Senate’s job to confirm nominations. So it’s all linked.

4. Adal Rhoubeid:

   Tragic events (in Ouagadougou) confirm something that is becoming more and more clear: terrorism is a cancer across the Sahel and Sahara.

5. Charles Abrahams:

   We can confirm that they will appeal the ruling.

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