Thesaurus / unproved
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
And so the whole fabric of geological chronology vanishes into a mere unproved notion, based upon an if.
GOSPEL PHILOSOPHYJ. H. WARD
Its effect is simply to leave both unproved, and neither, therefore, in condition for acceptance.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRIS
The existence in the system of a form of phosphorus less highly oxidized than the phosphates is unproved.
He declares that every case into which he examined turned out to be unproved.
This has left us with a small residuum of fact, unproved fact, but sufficient to work from.
THE AIR PIRATECYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER GULL
It is poor as the reasoning material fails to meet the facts, or is out of harmony with the most probable of the yet unproved.
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY FOR NURSESMARY F. PORTER
Physics as a whole, as resting on mere unproved hypotheses, may be indeed an object of inquiry but not of teaching.
FREEDOM IN SCIENCE AND TEACHING.ERNST HAECKEL
Not only was it entirely circumstantial, but the greater part of it was practically unproved.
THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLESAGATHA CHRISTIE
So that if no better argument can be found to prove God all-powerful, his omnipotence remains unproved.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE DEVILCHARLES BRADLAUGH
Instead, she had chosen a young instructor—a pleasant enough boy, perhaps but still unproved.
TUTORS' LANEWILMARTH LEWIS
WORDS RELATED TO UNPROVED
- abstract
- academic
- analytical
- as a premise
- assumed
- codified
- conjectural
- contingent
- formalistic
- formularized
- general
- ideal
- idealized
- ideational
- ideological
- imaginative
- impractical
- in the abstract
- in theory
- intellectual
- logical
- metaphysical
- notional
- on paper
- pedantic
- philosophical
- postulated
- presumed
- problematical
- pure
- quixotic
- speculative
- suppositional
- tentative
- transcendent
- transcendental
- unearthly
- unproved
- unsubstantiated
- vague
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