disprove

1. 1.

   prove to be false

   “The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories”

   Synonymsconfute

   Antonymsprove

   Broadernegate

   Narrowerexploderefutefalsify

Other forms of disprove

past tense

disproved·

present participle

disproving·

third person

disproves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disprove

What does disprove mean?

disprove means "prove to be false".

How many syllables are in disprove?

disprove has 2 syllables: di-sprove. The stress falls on "sprove". In IPA it is /dɪˈspɹuv/.

What is another word for disprove?

Close synonyms include confute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disprove?

The recorded antonyms are prove.

Is disprove a common word?

disprove is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.