- Types Of Speech
- You can use prove as a verb in a sentence.
- About Prove
- A 1 syllables verb and 5 letters with the letters e, o, p, r, and v, 3 consonants, 2 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letter o. Prove starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters p, pr, pro, prov, and the ending characters are e, ve, ove, rove, ..
- Definition
- Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Prove is set as a grade one word that starts with p, ends with e, 1 syllables, 2 vowels and 5 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is prove a scrabble word? A 10 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Prove in Pig Latin is said as "ovepray or oveprway".
- Unigram
- p | r | o | v | e
- Bigram
- pr | ro | ov | ve
- Trigram
- pro | rov | ove
- Quadrigram
- prov | rove
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;
"The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound";
"The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" - prove formally;
demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof - obtain probate of;
"prove a will" - provide evidence for;
"The blood test showed that he was the father";
"Her behavior testified to her incompetence" - take a trial impression of
- cause to puff up with a leaven;
"unleavened bread" - increase in volume;
"the dough rose slowly in the warm room" - put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;
"This approach has been tried with good results";
"Test this recipe" - be shown or be found to be;
"She proved to be right";
"The medicine turned out to save her life";
"She turned up HIV positive"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Account For | |
| Acquire | come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) "He grew a beard" "The patient developed abdominal pains" |
| Act Out | |
| Adumbrate | give to understand "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" |
| Advert | a public promotion of some product or service |
| Advertise | call attention to "Please don''t advertise the fact that he has AIDS" |
| Advertize | call attention to "Please don''t advertise the fact that he has AIDS" |
| Advise | give advice to "The teacher counsels troubled students" "The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud" |
| Affect | the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion |
| Affirm | establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts "his story confirmed my doubts" "The evidence supports the defendant" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Prove
| Antonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Confute | prove to be false "The physicist disproved his colleagues'' theories" |
| Disprove | prove to be false "The physicist disproved his colleagues'' theories" |
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prove | establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound" "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" |
| Overp |
View English words with the unique letters used in prove. Words With The Letters Eoprv
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Establishment | the act of forming something "the constitution of a PTA group last year" "it was the establishment of his reputation" "he still remembers the organization of the club" |
| Validation | the act of validating finding or testing the truth of something |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Affirm | establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts "his story confirmed my doubts" "The evidence supports the defendant" |
| Confirm | make more firm "Confirm thy soul in self-control!" |
| Corroborate | establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts "his story confirmed my doubts" "The evidence supports the defendant" |
| Substantiate | solidify, firm, or strengthen "The president''s trip will substantiate good relations with the former enemy country" |
| Support | documentary validation "his documentation of the results was excellent" "the strongest support for this this view is the work of Jones" |
| Sustain | undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) "She suffered a fracture in the accident" "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars" "She got a bruise on her leg" "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Contradict | prove negative; show to be false |
| Negate | make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts" |
| Prove | establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" |
| Prove Oneself | |
| Stultify | deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss''s hard work" |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proverb (7 letters) | 14 +4 | 17 +5 | proverb | ||
| Popover (7 letters) | 14 +4 | 17 +5 | popover | ||
| Provera (7 letters) | 12 +2 | 14 +2 | vaporer | ||
| Prove (5 letters) | 10 | 12 | prove | ||
| Approve (7 letters) | 14 +4 | 17 +5 | approve | ||
| Reprove (7 letters) | 12 +2 | 14 +2 | reprove | ||
| Overpay (7 letters) | 15 +5 | 16 +4 | proveay | ||
| Overp (5 letters) | 10 | 12 | prove | ||
| Proved (6 letters) | 12 +2 | 14 +2 | proved | ||
| Vaporer (7 letters) | 12 +2 | 14 +2 | vaporer |
Prove Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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