Word Meanings - IMPUGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose. The truth hereof I will net rashly pugn, or overboldly affirm. Peacham.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPUGN)
- Dispute
- Argue
- question
- canvass
- contest
- contend
- challenge
- debate
- controvert
- controversy
- difference
- gainsay
- impugn
- quarrel
- altercation
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPUGN)
- Pretermit
- allow
- ignore
- disregard
- admit
- pass
- misexamine
- misinvestigate
- Pass
- grant
- concede
- Dictate
- state
- assert
- pronounce
- enunciate
- endorse
- affirm
Related words: (words related to IMPUGN)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - ADMITTER
One who admits. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - QUARRELING
Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv. - ENDORSER
See INDORSER - AFFIRMATIVELY
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively. - ASSERT
self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - ASSERTORY
Affirming; maintaining. Arguments . . . assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - GAINSAY
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - ARGUE
1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, - CONTESTABLE
Capable of being contested; debatable. - QUESTIONIST
A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer. - DEBATEMENT
Controversy; deliberation; debate. A serious question and debatement with myself. Milton. - QUESTIONABLENESS
The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - GAINSAYER
One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens. - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.