English

Verb

disconfirm ‎(third-person singular simple present disconfirms, present participle disconfirming, simple past and past participle disconfirmed)

1. (transitive) To establish the falsity of a claim or belief; to show or to tend to show that a theory or hypothesis is not valid.
   • 1943, Carl G. Hempel, "A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation," The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 122,

     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.

Antonyms

• confirm

Related terms

• disconfirmation
• disconfirmatory

References

• “disconfirm” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• “disconfirm” in Microsoft's Encarta World English Dictionary, North American Edition (2007)
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)