Synonyms of discredited

discredited

verb

past tense of discredit

1

as in humiliated

to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes

attempted to discredit her political opponents by deliberately spreading false rumors

Synonyms & Similar Words

• humiliated
• disgraced
• embarrassed
• shamed
• confused
• degraded
• dishonored
• humbled
• demeaned
• debased
• insulted
• rattled
• criticized
• smirched
• cheapened
• chastened
• ridiculed
• abased
• lowered
• diminished
• took down
• fouled
• disparaged
• discounted
• sank
• minimized
• maligned
• decried
• mortified
• disconcerted
• slandered
• nonplussed
• belittled
• confounded
• condemned
• flustered
• discountenanced
• discomfited
• depreciated
• defamed
• abashed
• libeled
• detracted
• fazed
• castigated
• denounced
• defiled
• affronted
• execrated
• cried down
• censured
• wrote off
• bad-mouthed
• damned
• reprehended
• put down
• reprobated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• elevated
• cited
• exalted
• recognized
• praised
• applauded
• celebrated
• acknowledged
• deified
• honored
• canonized
• cheered
• acclaimed
• lauded
• extolled
• touted
• hailed
• commended
• boasted
• decorated
• congratulated
• complimented
• saluted
• feted
• eulogized
• aggrandized
• highlighted
• promoted
• spotlighted
• dignified
• magnified
• glorified
• enshrined
• ennobled
• advanced
• lifted
• enthroned
• idealized
• upgraded
• raised
• uplifted
• boosted
• played up
• romanticized
• enskied

2

as in denied

to think not to be true or real

I discredit the story that the old inn is haunted

Synonyms & Similar Words

• denied
• disbelieved
• negated
• doubted
• refuted
• distrusted
• disproved
• rejected
• mistrusted
• debunked
• repudiated
• suspected
• derided
• scoffed (at)
• pooh-poohed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• believed
• accepted
• credited
• swallowed
• trusted

3

as in refuted

to prove to be false

the pseudoscience of phrenology has been thoroughly discredited

Synonyms & Similar Words

• refuted
• overturned
• disproved
• challenged
• rebutted
• falsified
• debunked
• confuted
• discussed
• confounded
• disconfirmed
• belied
• questioned
• shot down
• contested
• doubted
• mistrusted
• gave the lie to
• overthrew
• debated
• queried
• mooted
• talked over
• hashed (over)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• established
• proved
• confirmed
• verified
• validated
• supported
• documented
• evidenced
• recorded
• showed
• witnessed
• identified
• corroborated
• certified
• demonstrated
• backed (up)
• attested
• illustrated
• substantiated
• manifested
• buttressed
• displayed
• evinced
• adduced
• authenticated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of discredited

News of the briefing leaked, and the senators lashed out at the FBI, saying their efforts to scrutinize the Biden family had been discredited and falsely linked to Russian disinformation. — Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

The regime discredited the uncorroborated claims by having state media release photos of the 42-year-old dictator touring a clothing and footwear exhibition in Pyongyang with his wife and teenage daughter Kim Ju Ae. — Anna Coren, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Milli Vanilli won a Grammy, got all this attention and then got discredited and didn’t replace Barbra Streisand or Bruce Springsteen or Taylor Swift or the Eurythmics or The Rolling Stones. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

Scientists have thoroughly discredited such claims for decades. — Ashique Khudabukhsh, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

The arrival of Dutch elm disease not only ravaged these green spaces, but discredited the whole goal of aiming for such uniformity. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

The issue here is not with this project, which is building something artistic and beautiful, but with a broader, pro-AI tech culture that has discredited AI and its public image. — James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026

At the same time, the war on terror fueled an alarming rise in xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment and discredited the country’s political and foreign policy elites. — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026

And its failure also discredited the globalization associated with free trade and mass migration. — Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026