Definition for Discredit:

• The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

Synonyms for Discredit:

• n.

  •
  • disabuse,
  • dispute,
  • confound,
  • repudiate.
  •
  • stain,
  • taint,
  • bruise.
  •
  • deflate,
  • explode,
  • puncture,
  • value,
  • injury,
  • loss of face,
  • debunk.
  •
  • confute,
  • rebut,
  • affirm,
  • belie,
  • disprove,
  • refute.
  •
  • belief.
  •criticism (noun)
  • reflection.
  •disbelief (noun)
  • unbelief,
  • Incredulousness.
  •discredit (noun)
  • disgrace,
  • disrepute,
  • disbelieve.
  •disrepute (noun)
  • ill fame,
  • scar.
  •doubt (noun)
  • agnosticism,
  • scruple.
  •infamy (noun)
  • infamy,
  • notoriousness.
  •shame (noun)
  • loss of face.
  •state (noun)
  • disrepute.

• v.

  •blame, detract from (verb)
  • vilify,
  • puncture,
  • shoot,
  • explode,
  • smear,
  • blow up,
  • disprove,
  • disesteem,
  • show up,
  • frown upon,
  • disparage,
  • slander,
  • expose,
  • disfavor,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • degrade,
  • reproach,
  • slur,
  • censure,
  • tear down,
  • poke full of holes,
  • dishonor,
  • disconsider,
  • destroy,
  • disgrace,
  • ruin,
  • knock bottom out of,
  • take rug out from under,
  • defame,
  • bring to naught,
  • reflect on,
  • bring into disrepute,
  • mudsling.
  •communication (verb)
  • disgrace.
  •criticize (verb)
  • impeach.
  •disapprove (verb)
  • denigrate,
  • scorn,
  • admonish,
  • deride,
  • upbraid,
  • defile,
  • denounce,
  • chide,
  • deprecate,
  • censure,
  • blame,
  • chastise,
  • criticize,
  • disapprove,
  • castigate,
  • disparage,
  • reproach,
  • defame,
  • renounce,
  • condemn,
  • vilify,
  • chasten.
  •disprove (verb)
  • confute,
  • refute.
  •doubt, question (verb)
  • disbelieve,
  • distrust,
  • put under suspicion,
  • mistrust,
  • challenge,
  • reject,
  • discount,
  • scoff at,
  • deny,
  • dispute.
  •questioning (verb)
  • doubt.
  •shame (verb)
  • scandal.
  •slander (verb)
  • dishonor,
  • libel,
  • sully,
  • scandalize,
  • malign,
  • traduce,
  • smear,
  • shame,
  • stigmatize,
  • tarnish,
  • pillory,
  • besmirch,
  • badmouth,
  • calumniate,
  • blacken,
  • detract,
  • slander,
  • besmear.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disprove,
  • undermine,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • Incredulousness,
  • calumny,
  • impugn,
  • gainsay,
  • bury,
  • black mark,
  • dispute,
  • bad odor,
  • repudiate,
  • disabuse,
  • bad name.
  •
  • debunk,
  • ignominy,
  • invalidate,
  • rebut,
  • recant,
  • disbelief,
  • opprobrium,
  • odium,
  • incredulity,
  • deflate,
  • unbelief,
  • taint.
  •
  • injury,
  • humiliation,
  • show up,
  • bruise,
  • bruising.
  •
  • obloquy,
  • negative,
  • withdraw,
  • belie,
  • blemish.
  •
  • puncture,
  • stain.
  •
  • explode.
  •
  • shoot.
  •cheapen
  • mar.
  •compromise
  • put under suspicion.
  •contradict
  • deny.
  •deny
  • not buy.
  •detract
  • belittle,
  • Vilipend.
  •discount
  • detract from.
  •disprove
  • disconfirm,
  • knock bottom out of.
  •doubt
  • disbelieve,
  • Misdoubt.
  •take away
  • derogate.
  •wrong
  • ill-treat,
  • impose upon.
  •Other relevant words:
  • derogation,
  • minimize,
  • find fault with,
  • take rug out from under,
  • injury,
  • bear a grudge,
  • disparagement,
  • notoriousness,
  • knock the bottom out of,
  • ill-treat,
  • discount,
  • scruple,
  • dispute,
  • negative,
  • gainsay,
  • controvert,
  • indignity,
  • value,
  • sceptical,
  • dismiss,
  • disesteem,
  • belie,
  • doubtfully,
  • scepticism,
  • humbling,
  • contradict,
  • knock,
  • bring down,
  • ruin,
  • incredulously,
  • bury,
  • mistrust,
  • compromise,
  • misuse,
  • damage,
  • debauch,
  • doubtfulness,
  • jeopardize,
  • timidly,
  • aspersion,
  • scar,
  • smirch,
  • circumspectly,
  • misgiving,
  • hazard,
  • distrust,
  • reduce,
  • brand,
  • derogate from,
  • disabuse,
  • mortification,
  • disfavor,
  • impeach,
  • explode,
  • shoot-down,
  • find fault,
  • incredulous,
  • mitigate,
  • revile,
  • cry down,
  • tamper with,
  • depreciation,
  • enviously,
  • insinuation,
  • discomfiture,
  • disconfirm,
  • bashful,
  • affront,
  • vitiation,
  • disbelieving,
  • play down,
  • frown upon,
  • blot,
  • disrepute,
  • beggar,
  • dissent,
  • undercut,
  • distrustfully,
  • shy,
  • disconsider,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • loss of face,
  • thoroughly,
  • impugn,
  • ignominy,
  • anxious,
  • doubt,
  • diffidently,
  • disgrace,
  • stain,
  • degradation,
  • asperse,
  • abase,
  • stoop,
  • disrespect,
  • belittlement,
  • expel,
  • bruise,
  • disapprove of,
  • ridicule,
  • contumely,
  • embarrass,
  • deny,
  • debatable,
  • imperfection,
  • take advantage of,
  • insinuate,
  • skeptical,
  • calumny,
  • soil,
  • challenge,
  • wrong,
  • fearful,
  • cautiously,
  • innuendo,
  • afraid,
  • humble,
  • mar,
  • bring to naught,
  • belittle,
  • imputation,
  • Shaming,
  • decry,
  • Abjectness,
  • shady,
  • degrade,
  • incredulity,
  • nonbelief,
  • heresy,
  • stigma,
  • infamy,
  • lie about,
  • put-down,
  • underrate,
  • shamefulness,
  • humiliation,
  • talk down,
  • defamation,
  • maltreat,
  • unbelievingness,
  • Dedecoration,
  • berate,
  • impair,
  • retraction,
  • irreverence,
  • underestimate,
  • demolish,
  • suspicion,
  • question,
  • doubtingly,
  • charily,
  • chary,
  • pull,
  • carefully,
  • endanger,
  • cast aspersions on,
  • uneasy,
  • bruising,
  • abasement,
  • downgrade,
  • deflate,
  • misrepresent,
  • suspiciously,
  • rejection,
  • deign,
  • rebut,
  • disprove,
  • flaw,
  • take to task,
  • spot,
  • cautious,
  • objurgate,
  • scandal,
  • not buy,
  • bring low,
  • vilification,
  • Vilipend,
  • risk,
  • yield,
  • belief,
  • odium,
  • not admit,
  • defect,
  • withdraw,
  • uneasily,
  • devalue,
  • deliberately,
  • undervalue,
  • insult,
  • depreciate,
  • lower,
  • foul,
  • prudently,
  • vigilant,
  • imperil,
  • mistrustfully,
  • abuse,
  • watchfully,
  • condescend,
  • wary,
  • watchful,
  • qualm,
  • accuse,
  • not swallow,
  • declaim,
  • ambiguous,
  • debasement,
  • show up,
  • smell a rat,
  • give the lie to,
  • mortify,
  • negate,
  • hesitant,
  • contempt,
  • put under suspicion,
  • shoot,
  • solicitous,
  • suspect,
  • timorously,
  • unsurely,
  • Incredulousness,
  • derogate,
  • puncture,
  • confute,
  • queer,
  • careful,
  • lambaste,
  • poke full of holes,
  • humiliate,
  • ill-use,
  • destroy,
  • apprehensively,
  • jealous,
  • blemish,
  • punish,
  • attack,
  • note down,
  • take no stock in,
  • Unbelieve,
  • bad odor,
  • misbelieve,
  • notoriety,
  • dubiously,
  • make little of,
  • Miscreance,
  • demean,
  • atheism,
  • de-emphasize,
  • bad name,
  • Calumniation,
  • bring into disrepute,
  • apprehensive,
  • tincture,
  • fearfully,
  • doubtful,
  • scoff at,
  • trivialize,
  • dishonour,
  • embarrassment,
  • mock,
  • label,
  • reflection,
  • deplume,
  • slur,
  • invalidate,
  • scrupulously,
  • reject,
  • defrock,
  • displume,
  • devaluate,
  • deteriorate,
  • blow upon,
  • bring shame upon,
  • tinge,
  • denial,
  • disbelievingly,
  • detraction,
  • disbelieve,
  • mudsling,
  • scrupulous,
  • dubious,
  • unbelief,
  • depress,
  • modestly,
  • bad-mouth,
  • black mark,
  • Misbelief,
  • knock bottom out of,
  • leery,
  • ill-repute,
  • Misdoubt,
  • mistreat,
  • falsify,
  • impose upon,
  • shoot full of holes,
  • ill fame,
  • attaint,
  • confound,
  • dubiousness,
  • blow up,
  • cheapen,
  • reprove,
  • put to shame,
  • circumspect,
  • be wary of,
  • mistrustful,
  • refute,
  • tear down,
  • harm,
  • jealously,
  • disbelief,
  • debunk,
  • blast,
  • sink,
  • characterize,
  • irreligion,
  • oppress,
  • lessen,
  • obloquy,
  • disfavour,
  • vitiate,
  • scoff,
  • infidelity,
  • guardedly,
  • denigration,
  • hold in contempt,
  • warily,
  • speak ill of,
  • reprehend,
  • repudiate,
  • not believe,
  • suspicious,
  • give no credence to,
  • affirm,
  • devastate,
  • Ingloriousness,
  • undermine,
  • offence,
  • reflect on,
  • injure,
  • detract from,
  • expose,
  • taint,
  • diminish,
  • ignore,
  • recant,
  • agnosticism,
  • debase,
  • questionable,
  • sham,
  • disapprobation,
  • call down,
  • hurt,
  • opprobrium,
  • slight,
  • unfrock,
  • anxiously,
  • mark,
  • distrustful.

Antonyms for Discredit:

• n.

  • state
    repute.
  • Other antonyms:
    reverence, regard, estimation, esteem, respect, raise, advance, dignify, admiration, uplift, appreciation, exalt, fear, aggrandize, honor, awe, elevate.

• v.

  • blame, detract from
    laud, flatter, credit, compliment, commend, praise, build, upgrade, honor, believe, create, approve, construct, exalt, trust.
  • doubt, question
    agree, go along.

Homophones for Discredit:

• discreet, dessert, disagree with, desegrated, discord, dasyurid, desecrated, decreed, disarrayed, deserted, desecrate, discard, desert, degrade, desired, decorate, disaccharide, discarded, dasyuridae, discredited, dogcart, degree day, djakarta, decorated, degraded, disaccord, dockyard, dose rate, Daucus Carota, dissertate, discrete, ditch reed, dog-eared.