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Definition of Disprove
1. Verb. Prove to be false. "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories"
Specialized synonyms: Explode, Controvert, Rebut, Refute, Falsify
Generic synonyms: Contradict, Negate
Derivative terms: Confutation, Confutation, Confutative, Confuter, Disprover
Antonyms: Prove
Definition of Disprove
1. v. t. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
Definition of Disprove
1. Verb. To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disprove
1. to refute [v -PROVED, -PROVEN, -PROVING, -PROVES] - See also: refute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disprove
Literary usage of Disprove
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... С forth to disprove the historical character of the k of Ruth. It is rightly
felt, for instance, that the symbolical meaning of the names of several ..."
2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"90. disprove it, for to disprove it is against his interest; but if he Art. 12.
release his legacy or interest, though at the trial, he is a witness, ..."
3. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1831)
"The other joint owner, the defendant in the second action, is called to disprove
this. But it is to be observed that these actions are brought, ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1865)
"... is therefore nearly sufficient to disprove the notion established one in
medical and philosophical works. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The great feature of it all is, that the Bible is never to be quoted except to
disprove it ; so that what a man lacks in scholarship, he may make up in ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"This does not, however, to my mind disprove the theory of speech localization.
The aphasia, according to the statement of the ..."
7. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"... does not disprove the agency of malaria.—By those who reject this doctrine,
it is not unfrequently urged in a tone of confident triumph that its ..."
8. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"dividual, be has embezzled It; but, when the state makes such charge, It must
prove its truth. It does not devolve upon the defendant to disprove it, ..."
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