prove

Other forms of prove

past tense or participle

proven

present participle

proving·

third person

proves·

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 prove

What does prove mean?

prove means "be shown or be found to be". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prove?

prove has 1 syllable: prove. In IPA it is /ˈpɹuv/.

What is another word for prove?

Close synonyms include turn out, turn up, demonstrate, establish, show. 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 prove?

The recorded antonyms are disprove.

Is prove a common word?

prove is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with prove?

3 words rhyme with prove. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.