1. serving to prove something false or show that it is incorrect
Usage: formal; academic

1. present participle of disconfirm; proving something to be false or incorrect
Usage: formal; academic

Examples

• The scientist was disconfirming the original hypothesis with new data.
• Several disconfirming studies challenged the popular theory.
• The evidence was disconfirming rather than supporting their claims.
• Researchers spent years disconfirming the outdated model.
• The disconfirming results surprised the entire research team.
• New findings are disconfirming what we thought we knew.
• The study provided disconfirming evidence against the proposal.