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Synonyms and Antonyms of demonstrate

1 to gain full recognition or acceptance of
  • you must demonstrate your scientific thesis before a jury of your professional peers
Synonyms of demonstrate

establish, prove, show, substantiate
Words Related to demonstrate

attest, authenticate, bear out, document, evidence, support, sustain, uphold

confirm, corroborate, justify, validate, verify
Near Antonyms of demonstrate

confute, discredit, invalidate, rebut, refute
Antonyms of demonstrate

disprove
2 to show the existence or truth of by evidence
  • the paleontologist hopes to demonstrate that dinosaurs once existed in central Peru by unearthing the fossil evidence
Synonyms of demonstrate

document, establish, prove, substantiate, validate
Words Related to demonstrate

back (up), buttress, circumstantiate, corroborate

evidence, evince, record, support, uphold, witness

adduce, attest, authenticate, certify, identify

confirm, sustain, verify, vouch

clinch, nail, settle

confess, depose, testify
Near Antonyms of demonstrate

challenge, dispute, object

allege, assume, conjecture, guess, presume, surmise, suspect
Antonyms of demonstrate

disprove, rebut, refute
3 to make known (something abstract) through outward signs
  • the babysitter's actions during the emergency demonstrate beyond doubt her general dependability
Synonyms of demonstrate

bespeak, betray, communicate, declare, display, evince, expose, give away, manifest, reveal, show
Words Related to demonstrate

bare, disclose, unbosom, uncloak, uncover

advertise, air, announce, blaze, broadcast, placard, proclaim, publicize, sound, trumpet

project
Near Antonyms of demonstrate

belie, misrepresent

distort, falsify, garble, twist

camouflage, disguise

gild, gloss (over), varnish, whitewash

conceal, counterfeit, cover, hide, mask, obscure, occlude, veil
4 to make plain or understandable
  • a few striking facts should demonstrate the complex nature of our topic
Synonyms of demonstrate

clarify, clear (up), construe, demystify, elucidate, explain, explicate, expound, get across, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, simplify, spell out, unriddle
Words Related to demonstrate

decipher, decode

analyze, break down

disentangle, undo, unravel, unscramble, untangle

resolve, solve

define, specify

annotate, commentate, gloss
Near Antonyms of demonstrate

befog, cloud

confound, confuse, obfuscate
Antonyms of demonstrate

obscure
5 to show or make clear by using examples
  • the visiting physicist demonstrated very graphically several basic scientific principles
Synonyms of demonstrate

exemplify, illustrate, instance
Words Related to demonstrate

adduce, cite,

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