negatory: negative, negating
nugatory: trifling, ineffective, worthless
But affirm has much broader usage. Its meaning overlaps with confirm - it can be exactly synonymous confirm, but only with respect to something that is in some sense positive.
Affirm can also mean to assert positively, rather than merely confirm or validate.
refute: = prove something wrong/untrue
rebut: = deny without proof
Indeed.
You want to sound all technical and professional responding to a query?
You say, “Affirmative, sir.”
No, I don’t think this is correct. A rebuttal typically involves an argument or proof as to why something is wrong.
Unless you’re Homer Simpson.
These two are very close. I also don’t think a rebuttal lacks proof. It certainly also implies presenting evidence or counterarguments, not just denial. If there’s a subtle difference between the two I think it’s that refute tends to imply success in proving something wrong (perhaps objectively wrong), rebut does not necessarily imply decisive success?
Yes, perhaps that’s a more nuanced way of putting it. A rebuttal doesn’t prove conclusively in the way a refutal does. Whenever I hear some politician or corporate bigwig under attack go all huffy and say “I refute that entirely!”, I want to say “Well, go on then”.
You don’t say “affirmative,” or some shit like that. You say “no problemo.”
In any event, I seem to recall that the next step is to as Victor for the vector.
dastard: a despicable and malicious coward; a dullard
bastard: one begotten and born out of wedlock; a mongrel; a contemptible man or boy; a fellow or chap
bustard - large, terrestrial birds living mainly in dry grassland areas and on the steppes of the Old World. They make up the family Otididae.
This is also a type of file.
And a sword, which can be used 1 or 2 handed.
disperse: to scatter, break up, or dissipate. The noun forms are dispersal and dispersion
disburse: to pay out. The noun form is disbursement.
Seeds are dispersed and crowds disperse, but money is disbursed from an account to a payee.
And the person in charge of disbursing funds at a college is the bursar
All coming from the Latin bursa, meaning a purse, but also the source for the bursitis (tennis elbow or housemaid’s knee) that can afflict the sac (or purse) of fluid around an overworked joint.
Whereas the Purser is the person in charge handling the money on a ship or plane.
I feel like a bursar should burse, not disburse.
When I was in college, the Bursar was where you went to hand in your tuition payment.
I suspect the Bursar is really “the entire accounting department”, just using archaic terminology because academia is like that.
I’m sure it is sometimes, but at the college I worked at the bursar’s office strictly handled student accounts - tuition payments , refunds, and so on. They might have been part of the accounting department but the people who paid bills and handled payroll were not part of the bursar’s office.