Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not proven; unproven.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

non- +‎ proven

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word nonproven.

Examples

  • Advertisers have to be very careful about separating clinically proven claims from nonproven claims; courts often proceed as the district court did, treating the claim as explicitly made rather than requiring evidence that consumers would understand “clinically proven” to encompass all nearby claims.

    Cold sore treatment finds no relief in Third Circuit Rebecca Tushnet 2006

  • Outside influence is always possible, but hard to pin down: the "Atlantis theory," so simple, so romantic, remains nonproven and, for me as for many, highly suspect.

    The Secrets of the Pyramids West, John Anthony 1979

  • They say, 'We don't want to take a risk on a nonproven commodity.'"

    unknown title 2009

  • They say, 'We don't want to take a risk on a nonproven commodity.'"

    unknown title 2009

  • They say, 'We don't want to take a risk on a nonproven commodity.'"

    unknown title 2009

  • They say, 'We don't want to take a risk on a nonproven commodity.'"

    unknown title 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.