Synonyms of substantiating

substantiating 1 of 2

adjective

as in supporting

serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something

without some substantiating evidence, such as a stub from a bus ticket, who's going to believe your alibi?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• supporting
• confirming
• supportive
• verifying
• confirmational
• supplementary
• corroborative
• probative
• corroborating
• confirmatory
• vindicating
• corroboratory
• probatory
• auxiliary
• beneficial
• helpful

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refuting
• contradictory
• disproving
• contrary
• opposing
• counter
• confuting

substantiating

2 of 2

verb

present participle of substantiate

1

as in proving

to gain full recognition or acceptance of

substantiated his claim to local mountaineering fame with a photo of himself on the summit of Mount McKinley

Synonyms & Similar Words

• proving
• establishing
• demonstrating
• showing
• confirming
• documenting
• evidencing
• verifying
• justifying
• attesting
• upholding
• sustaining
• corroborating
• supporting
• validating
• authenticating
• bearing out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disproving
• refuting
• invalidating
• rebutting
• discrediting
• confuting

2

as in verifying

to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of

Mr. MacGregor couldn't substantiate that it was Peter, and not some other rabbit, in the cabbage patch

Synonyms & Similar Words

• verifying
• confirming
• arguing
• supporting
• corroborating
• validating
• proving
• attesting
• vindicating
• certifying
• demonstrating
• authenticating
• witnessing
• establishing
• reinforcing
• affirming
• bearing out
• documenting
• asserting
• guaranteeing
• testifying (to)
• declaring
• backing (up)
• averring
• warranting
• professing
• vouching (for)
• reenforcing
• avowing
• avouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refuting
• disproving
• rebutting
• contradicting
• denying
• disclaiming
• disavowing
• contesting
• questioning
• challenging
• disputing
• gainsaying

3

as in embodying

to represent in visible form

the artist's intense feelings are substantiated by his paintings' bold colors and broad brush strokes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• embodying
• expressing
• incorporating
• illustrating
• symbolizing
• exemplifying
• manifesting
• externalizing
• personalizing
• realizing
• personifying
• instantiating
• materializing
• epitomizing
• bodying
• incarnating
• actualizing
• objectifying
• concretizing
• typifying
• imaging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disembodying

4

as in establishing

to show the existence or truth of by evidence

substantiate the need for a tuition increase with some concrete figures

Synonyms & Similar Words

• proving
• establishing
• demonstrating
• documenting
• validating
• confirming
• verifying
• identifying
• corroborating
• evidencing
• supporting
• buttressing
• adducing
• upholding
• attesting
• recording
• certifying
• evincing
• sustaining
• witnessing
• vouching
• authenticating
• testifying
• backing (up)
• circumstantiating
• clinching
• confessing
• deposing
• nailing
• settling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refuting
• disproving
• rebutting
• objecting
• challenging
• disputing
• alleging
• assuming
• suspecting
• presuming
• guessing
• conjecturing
• surmising

5

as in reinforcing

to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)

Darwin spent the rest of his life gathering evidence to substantiate his theory of the origin of species

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reinforcing
• bolstering
• proving
• supporting
• corroborating
• confirming
• buttressing
• establishing
• backing
• verifying
• reenforcing
• shoring (up)
• validating
• affirming
• avouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undermining
• weakening
• undercutting