Antonyms of verb disprove

1 sense of disprove

Sense 1
disprove, confute -- (prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories")
       Antonym of prove (Sense 2)
      => prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew -- (establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb disprove

1 sense of disprove

Sense 1
disprove, confute -- (prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories")
       => negate, contradict -- (prove negative; show to be false)

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