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Antonyms for unverifiable

Grammar : Adj
Spell : ver-uh-fahy
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɛr əˌfaɪ

Definition of unverifiable

Origin :
  • early 14c., from Old French verifier, from Medieval Latin verificare "make true," from Latin verus "true" (see very) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious).
  • As in legendary : adj fictitious but well known
Example sentences :
  • In either case, we are in the world of the unverifiable; we take a step in the dark.
  • Extract from : « The Breath of Life » by John Burroughs
  • That this knowledge should be mixed with much that was erroneous or unverifiable is not surprising.
  • Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers
  • The second thesis charges me with putting aside "as unverifiable" "everything beyond the bounds of physical science."
  • Extract from : « Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • Does Mr. Lilly suppose that I put aside "as unverifiable" all the truths of mathematics, of philology, of history?
  • Extract from : « Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • Let me begin with the first assertion, that I "put aside, as unverifiable, everything which the senses cannot verify."
  • Extract from : « Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • It should be said that Professor Hyslop has perhaps overestimated the number of false and unverifiable incidents.
  • Extract from : « Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research » by Michael Sage
  • Many incidents or factors classed as false or unverifiable have been later found to be exact.
  • Extract from : « Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research » by Michael Sage
  • What he denied is a notion of freedom which seemed to him at once unverifiable, useless, and irrational.
  • Extract from : « Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding » by John Dewey
  • The dogmatism of denial it has left as it found it, an unverified and unverifiable assertion.
  • Extract from : « Is Life Worth Living? » by William Hurrell Mallock
  • The conditions of the problem so far transcend our grasp that any such speculation must remain an unverifiable guess.
  • Extract from : « The Unseen World and Other Essays » by John Fiske

Synonyms for unverifiable

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