disprove
verb (used with object)
to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate.
disprovable
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a word derived from
disprove.
Example Sentences
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None of them expect the host to correct his guests when they make easily disprovable statements like this.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2023
But he’s also a cautionary tale — of what can happen when you cross too many lines, tell too many easily disprovable lies and refuse to back down.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
There are facts, which are demonstrably provable; faith, which can neither be proved or disproved; and fantasy, which is demonstrably disprovable.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2022
Video doesn’t help with that; if anything, it hurts by grounding the conversation in disprovable facts.
From The Verge ● Mar. 5, 2019
In 1963 a mathematician, Paul Cohen, proved that this puzzle, the so-called continuum hypothesis, was neither provable nor disprovable, thanks to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
