Controvert

Definition: Controvert

Controvert

Verb

1. Be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion.".

2. Prove to be false or incorrect.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "controvert" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Controvert \Con"tro*vert\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Controverted; present participle verb or noun Controverting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Controvert

Confutation

Verb: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break; (destroy); overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.

Discord

Fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert; (deny); squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar; (contend); have words; n. with; fall foul of.

Negation

Verb: deny; contradict, contravene; controvert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head.

Reasoning,

Verb: reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert; (deny); canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider; (examine).

Crosswords: Controvert

Those then who controvert the principle that the constitution is to be considered, in court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that the courts must close their eyes on the constitution, and see only the law. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, condemn, contest, contradict, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to), hedh poshtë (censure, confute, contradict, decline, demolish, detrude, disclaim, disprove, dispute, knock out, push aside, rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, sweep away, turn down, wave aside), bëj polemikë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فند (confute, disprove, impugn, oppugn, rebut, refute), ‏نكر (contradict, deny, deny oneself, disallow, disbelieve, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebut, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, unreel). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оспорвам (call down, contest, contravene, debate, dispute, gainsay, impugn, litigate, oppugn, query, question), оборвам (explode, meet, rebut, refute, repulse), повдигам възражение срещу (protest). (various references)

Czech

popírat (contradict, deny, negate). (various references)

Farsi 

منکرشدن (Repudiate), مخالفت کردن (Blackball, Object, Oppose, Withstand), هم ستیزکردن , ردکردن (Balk, Confute, Decline, Deny, Disallow, Disapprove, Disavow, Disclaim, Disown, Disprove, Gainsay, Ignore, Impugn, Overrule, Rebuff, Rebut, Refuse, Refute, Rejcet, Repel, Repudiate, Veto). (various references)

French

controverser. (various references)

German

anfechten (appeal against, arraign, challenge, contest, dispute, impeach, impugn, protest, tempt, to arraign, to contest). (various references)

Greek 

αντικρούω (confute, contravene, counter to, impugn, oppose, oppugn, rebuff, rebut, refute, rejoin, stem, thwart, traverse, withstand), αμφισβητώ (argue, be in doubt, contest, discredit, dispute, doubt, query whether, question). (various references)

Hungarian

megvitat (canvass, discuss, moot, talk over, to argue, to debate, to discuss, to dispute, to moot, to talk over, to talk sg out). (various references)

Indonesian

menyangkal (confute, contradict, deny, disclaim, disprove, gainsay, negate). (various references)

Italian

controvertere. (various references)

Manx

goaill noi (controvertion, oppose), arganey noi (contest, controvertion). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontrovertcay

Portuguese

controverter (dispute), contestar (challenge, contest, contradict, disprove, dispute, impeach, impugn, object, question), rebater (reduce the price), discutir (agitate, argue, canvass, debate, deliberate, discourse, discuss, dispute, gainsay, knock off, moot, quarrel, rap, reason, spar, strike off, talk over, traverse, ventilate), debater (canvass, contest, debate, discuss, knock off, moot, powwow, question, reason, strike off, toss, ventilate). (various references)

Romanian

controversa (hold a dispute on), dezbate (agitate, argue, beat out, break, canvass, contest, criticize, debate, dispute, fall, review). (various references)

Russian 

оспаривать (call in question, contend, contend for, contest, contravene, dispute, impugn, litigate, oppugn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osporiti (deny, dispute, question). (various references)

Spanish

contradecir (contradict, gainsay). (various references)

Swedish

tvistas, stridas, leda polemik. (various references)

Turkish

yalanlamak (belie, call back, confute, contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disprove, give the lie to, impugn, kill, oppugn, refute), tartışmak (altercate, argue, bat around, Bicker, brawl, bust, canvass, challenge, contend, debate, discuss, dispute, have a row with, have a set-to, have words with smb., jangle, join issue with smb., moot, negotiate, set to, spar, take issue with smb., wrangle), reddetmek (abnegate, cast off, challenge, damn, declare off, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disapprove, disavow, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispute, draw the line, fall down, gainsay, negate, negative, Nix, overrule, protest, quash, rebut, refuse, refute, reject, renege, renounce, repel, repudiate, rule out, scout, set aside, spurn, take objection to, throw out, turn back, turn down, turn thumbs down on, veto, wave aside), karşı gelmek (argue, beard, bridle, buck, cut across, defy, go against, object to, oppose, recalcitrate, transgress), çürütmek (canker, cause to rot, confute, contuse, corrode, corrupt, decay, decompose, disproof, disprove, explode, molder, moulder, pick to pieces, putrefy, rebut, refute, rot, stultify). (various references)

Ukrainian

оспорювати (challenge, contest, contravene, quarrel, rebut), заперчувати, полемізувати (polemize). (various references)

Welsh

gwrthddadlau (object). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "controvert": controverted, controverter, controverters, controvertible, controverting, controverts. (additional references)

Words containing "controvert": incontrovertible, incontrovertibly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Controvert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: controverting, controvery, Pontrobert. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: convertor.

-3 letters: contort, convert, coroner, coronet, crooner, torrent.

-4 letters: cooter, corner, cornet, corvet, cotter, cotton, covert, croton, enroot, rector, retorn, retort, rooter, rotten, rotter, tooter, torero, torten, trover, vector.

-5 letters: cento, conte, conto, cooer, corer, coven, cover, covet, crone, croon, crore, noter, octet, otter, overt, recon, recto, retro, rotor, rotte, roven, rover, tenor, toner.

+1 letter: controverts.

+2 letters: controverted, controverter.

+3 letters: controverters, controverting, overconstruct.

+4 letters: controvertible, nonretroactive, overconstructs, overextraction, overprotecting, overprotection.

+5 letters: overconstructed, overextractions, overprotections.