The Collaborative International Dictionary
Falsifiable \Fal"si*fi`a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. falsifiable.]
Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
--Johnson.able to be proven false, and therefore testable; as, most religious beliefs are not falsifiable, and are therefor outside the scope of experimental science.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from falsify + -able or from French falsifiable. Related: Falsifiability.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Logically capable of being proven false. 2 Capable of being falsified or forged.
WordNet
adj. capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation [syn: confirmable, verifiable]
Usage examples of "falsifiable".
This kind of hypothesis is falsifiable, a property that brings it well into the scientific arena.
And values were very resistant to scientific analysis: Isolation of factors for study, falsifiable hypotheses, repeatable experiments-the entire apparatus as practiced in lab physics simply could not be brought to bear.
And values were very resistant to scientific analysis: Isolation of factors for study, falsifiable hypotheses, repeatable experiments—the entire apparatus as practiced in lab physics simply could not be brought to bear.