disconfirm

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid. transitive
    — The empirical data obtained in a test—or, as we shall prefer to say, the observation sentences describing those data—may then either confirm or disconfirm the given hypothesis, or they may be neutral with respect to it.

词形变化

disconfirms present,singular,third-person disconfirming participle,present disconfirmed participle,past disconfirmed past

词汇关系

反义词
confirm

词源

Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English confirm
English disconfirm
From dis- + confirm.
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