PROVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proved mean? 

• PROVED (adjective)
  The adjective PROVED has 1 sense:

1. established beyond doubt

  Familiarity information: PROVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Established beyond doubt

Synonyms:

proved; proven

Context example:

a Soviet leader of proven shrewdness

Similar:

established (shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt)

evidenced (supported by evidence)

tested; tried; well-tried (tested and proved useful or correct)

verified (proved to be true)

Antonym:

unproved (not proved)

 Context examples 

And as to the not missing her, which under Mrs. Norris's discussion was the point attempted to be proved, she set herself very steadily against admitting any such thing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Yes, we have had an adventure during the night, and one which might have proved to be a serious one.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Unwittingly, Ruth herself proved his point that she worshipped the established.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mr. John Knightley proved more talkative than his brother.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Both an initial re-exposure to the shock and the subsequent timing of extinction training proved critical.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

The silence of the lady proved it to be unanswerable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I proved it to you in such terms as, I should have thought, would have prevented your ever again alluding to the plan.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The man in the red sweater had proved that.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

That the Count's arrangements were well made, has been proved.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Following him down the passage I was suddenly interrupted by a small woman, who stepped out from what proved to be the dining-room door.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)