Synonyms of disproved

disproved

verb

past tense of disprove

as in refuted

to prove to be false

Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe disproved any lingering notions that the earth is flat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• refuted
• overturned
• discredited
• challenged
• rebutted
• falsified
• debunked
• confuted
• discussed
• disconfirmed
• belied
• confounded
• shot down
• questioned
• contested
• doubted
• gave the lie to
• debated
• overthrew
• mistrusted
• queried
• mooted
• talked over
• hashed (over)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• proved
• established
• confirmed
• verified
• validated
• showed
• recorded
• supported
• documented
• evidenced
• witnessed
• identified
• corroborated
• demonstrated
• backed (up)
• substantiated
• attested
• illustrated
• certified
• evinced
• manifested
• displayed
• adduced
• buttressed
• authenticated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of disproved

Leppanen recounted that a colleague told her that the pouches dissolved even though the information that disproved this was available online. — Matthew Chapman, STAT, 14 July 2026

This left open the question of whether more complex, loopy geometries would behave differently, while also leaving competing historical theories yet to be disproved. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026

And more recently, a new general-purpose AI system from OpenAI disproved an important conjecture in combinatorial geometry. — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026

These allegations will be disproved like all the rest. — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 9 June 2026

The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI models as having disproved an 80-year-old mathematical conjecture in geometry. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026

Specifically, OpenAI said in an announcement published on its website that its models disproved a central conjecture in an area of discrete geometry tied to Paul Erdős’s planar unit distance problem, a famously stubborn question first posed in 1946. — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

The first and third items in this indictment are indisputable; the second is a complicated and qualified matter; and the last two are libels, still part of popular legend no matter how often disproved by serious biography. — Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026

But Lucas, known for making false confessions, later retracted his claim, and other evidence disproved his connection to the murder. — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026