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Common collocations with hypothesis in American Collocation

hypothesis noun countable

US /haɪˈpɑθəsɪs/

reasonable

plausible
reasonable
valid

It is unjustified to reject this quite plausible hypothesis on the basis that some inconclusive evidence implies that all evidence is spurious.

not proved, but being tested

speculative
tentative
unproven
untested
working

This is of course only a tentative hypothesis, but there is a fair bit of supporting evidence.

capable of being tested

falsifiable
testable

He provides no testable hypotheses, only a lot of vague, unscientific speculation.

form a hypothesis

advance
develop
form
formulate
propose
suggest

You might like to formulate a hypothesis to investigate this.

test a hypothesis to see if it is correct

consider
evaluate
examine
explore
investigate
test

This is a practical demonstration of how corpora can be used to investigate a particular linguistic hypothesis.

prove a hypothesis is not correct

contradict
disprove
explode

Scholars doubt and disprove hypotheses until they are upheld by the evidence.

prove a hypothesis is correct

confirm
prove
support
verify

Their results partly supported these hypotheses.

say you think a hypothesis is probably not correct

refute
reject

When religious hypotheses are refuted by scientists, the theists will go on believing anyway.

say you think a hypothesis is probably correct

accept

Now, for the sake of argument we will accept the hypothesis that he is right.