disproven

adj 2

Collocations

ADJ.

cultural, many, verified

DISPROVEN + NOUN

assumptions, principle

ADV.

experimentally

adj

Shown to be false.

Not proven, in a legal case where the jury verdict has inconclusive evidence for conviction, but sufficient to suspect guilt.

A disproven principle. If A = B and B = C, then C = A. Is this true? Maybe. On Tatoeba C can be different from A.

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Science has disproven many cultural assumptions.

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Gut feelings play a role in science; they are called hypotheses, and then they are verified or disproven experimentally.

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i Register

In some senses, disproven is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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