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

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

Although the candidate planet was ultimately discredited, genuine hot, rocky planets do exist around other stars. — Alix Freckelton, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Inflicting these details on the jury, the children’s family members, and the public served no discernible purpose in establishing Clancy’s mens rea, which might have discredited her not-guilty plea. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026