[
US
/ənˈpɹuvd/
]
[ UK /ʌnpɹˈuːvd/ ]
[ UK /ʌnpɹˈuːvd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not proved
unproved assumptions
unproved allegations
How To Use unproved In A Sentence
- it was both unproved and unprovable
- By medicine's own standards, at best chemotherapy is unproved against 90 percent of adult solid tumors, the huge majority of common cancers resulting in death.
- The use of antidepressants, antipsychotics, or anticholinesterase inhibitors for insomnia related to delirium or dementia is also unproved.
- Fine tooth combing of wet hair is an effective method of detecting head lice but unproved as a treatment
- unproved allegations
- And with its completion we look forward to similar trials of established but unproved treatments in other areas of medicine.
- All the rest, from gossip to gospel, remains conjectural-unproved belief.
- A scientist never presupposes the truth of an unproved fact.
- By comparison, the risk from defective, counterfeit or mislabeled drugs from Canada is presumed but unproved by any evidence.
- After a pause I said: `And this is all just an unproved theory of yours. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS