Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To damage in reputation; disgrace.
- v. To cause to be doubted or distrusted.
- v. To refuse to believe.
- n. Loss of or damage to one's reputation.
- n. Lack or loss of trust or belief; doubt.
- n. Something damaging to one's reputation or stature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To disbelieve; give no credit to; not to credit or believe: as, the report is discredited.
- To injure the credit or reputation of; make less esteemed or honored; fail to do credit to.
- To deprive of credibility; destroy confidence in.
- n. Want of credit or good repute; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem: applied to persons or things: as, frauds that bring manufactures into discredit; a transaction much to his discredit.
- n. Want of belif, trust, or confidence; disbelief: as, his story is received with discredit. Synonyms Disrepute, dishonor, ill repute.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved.
- n. Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons or things.
- v. To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve.
- v. To deprive of credibility; to destroy confidence or trust in; to cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority of.
- v. To deprive of credit or good repute; to bring reproach upon; to make less reputable; to disgrace.
WordNet 3.0
- v. damage the reputation of
- v. cause to be distrusted or disbelieved
- n. the state of being held in low esteem
- v. reject as false; refuse to accept
Etymologies
- dis- + credit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“What I'm really seeking to discredit is a specific component of homodoxy exhibited most notably in monotheism but just as present in polytheist and atheist homodoxies.”
“The third thing to her discredit was her living in the land of Canaan, whose inhabitants were known to be harsh and evil.”
“The main reason for the discredit, which is world wide, is, I think, to be found in the fact that a congress of representatives is essentially a group of blind men in a vast, unknown world.”
“He entertained, he insisted, a high regard for Mrs. Hill, and the only thing he knew to her discredit was the fact that she was Major Hill's wife.”
“- I cannot possibly oblige you by not wearing my gown, because I have it made up on purpose to wear it a great deal, & as the discredit will be my own, I feel the less regret.”
“Remember, the first tactic to discredit is to call the opponent insane, or to intimate insanity.”
“Aside from any other sleaziness in this story, the idea that being gay is a 'discredit' to someone is loathesome to say the list.”
“Both sides agreed that my goal was to "discredit" the Bible, to "make the Bible look stupid, irrelevant, and full of holes" and "a load of bullshit.”
The Huffington Post: Timothy Beal: In The Beginning(s): Appreciating The Complexity Of The Bible
“Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has warned against attempts to "discredit" the tribunal, while William Hague, the British foreign secretary, announced a further £1m funding in support for the tribunal and declared that "justice is the only way to ensure stability in Lebanon".”
The Huffington Post: James Denselow: Lebanon's Moment of Truth
“Thanks for your take on the "discredit" machine now being stoked by all the usual suspects.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘discredit’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE Readings
sophistry, religious, venture, touching, slander, rotunda, singular, spurious, rhetoric, virtue, temper, tardy and 133 more...
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abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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newGRE
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imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL D
dais, dalliance, dank, daunt, daunting, dawdled, dearth, debacle, debase, debauchery, debilitate, debonair and 141 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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GRE High Frequency Words
GRE High Frenquency Words (including the Ubiquitous 400)
abscond, abate, aberrant, abeyance, abstemious, admonish, adulterate, aesthetic, aggregate, alacrity, alleviate, amalgamate and 120 more...
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difficult-list14
descry, despondent, desiccate, desuetude, desultory, deterrent, detract, devolve, diadem, diatribe, diffidence, diffuse and 20 more...
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10th Grade Unit 2 (CRED)
incredulous, incredible, discredit, creed, credulous, credit, credible, credentials
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Demean
Words meaning to demean.
disparage, vilipend, denigrate, depreciate, derogate, abase, debase, degrade, discredit
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