To provide evidence or a result that contradicts or weakens a claim, belief or prediction.
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Words that belong together
- disconfirm a prediction
- disconfirm a hypothesis
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The result disconfirmed the prediction under the conditions specified in advance.
The new observation disconfirmed part of the account without identifying the complete replacement explanation.
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- Base
- disconfirm
- Past tense
- disconfirmed
- Past participle
- disconfirmed
- Present participle
- disconfirming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disconfirm
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disconfirming
- Present perfect
- have/has disconfirmed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disconfirming
- Past
- disconfirmed
- Past continuous
- was/were disconfirming
- Past perfect
- had disconfirmed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disconfirming
- Future
- will disconfirm
- Future continuous
- will be disconfirming
- Future perfect
- will have disconfirmed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disconfirming
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Usage notes
Primary category: analysis / argumentation / evidence. Forms: disconfirm; disconfirms; disconfirmed; disconfirmed; disconfirming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: counterevidence assessment, argument critique, qualified assertion, formal disagreement. Disciplines: argumentation, research interpretation, social analysis. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: disconfirms.
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