disprovable
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- adjective
- /dɪsˈpruːvəbl/
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refutable
- If the data is disprovable (which seems likely), then it would become clear that they cost themselves sales and spent money on DRM for no good reason.
But in terms of personality, I don't know what I hate more and what I'm more against because it it, it's such an absurd premise that's so easily disprovable.
- But in terms of personality, I don't know what I hate more and what I'm more against because it it, it's such an absurd premise that's so easily disprovable.
Examples
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After allowing the university to slip down the quality slide far enough that Middle States launched an investigation, a resume scandal, and a sizable disprovable from the faculty large enough for the Kean Federation of Teachers to ask him to leave, Dawood Farahi is staying.
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The theory proposed by the researcher was disprovable and could be tested through experiments.
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20 Easily Disprovable Stories That Conservative Chumps
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It is clear that AGW theory is not disprovable using temperature data in the next 20 years.
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That the claim that Israel is an "illegal occupation of Palestine" is factually disprovable is merely another inconvenient truth.
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The idea that the polls were skewed in Democrats' favor was easily disprovable by looking at the recent historic record, but I guess that might have been too bubble-bursting for them.
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He championed the idea of falsification, where a hypothesis must be potentially disprovable for it to be regarded as scientific.
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The greater persuasiveness of objectively disprovable assertions is intuitively obvious.
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His claim about the phenomenon was eventually deemed disprovable after further investigation.
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In science, hypotheses must be disprovable in order to be rigorously validated.
Synonyms
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Able to be shown wrong by tests or evidence
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New evidence can show a claim is wrong
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Tests or evidence can show that it is false
Can be shown wrong by facts or proof
Antonyms
How Falsifiable
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Disprovable comes from the prefix dis- meaning 'not' or 'opposite' and the verb prove, which means 'to show something is true', like the word proof. So something that is disprovable can be shown 'not true' or false by facts or evidence.