Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To assert to be untrue, often by saying the opposite: synonym: deny.
- intransitive verb To assert the opposite of a statement or idea put forward by (someone).
- intransitive verb To be contrary to; be inconsistent with.
- intransitive verb To make a contradictory statement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically: as, his statement was at once contradicted.
- To deny the words or assertion of; address or speak of in contradiction: as, he contradicted the previous speaker; I contradicted him to his face.
- To oppose; act or be directly contrary to; be inconsistent with: as, the statement which was made contradicts experience.
- To speak or declare against; forbid.
- Synonyms To gainsay, impugn, controvert, dispute. To contravene.
- To utter a contrary statement or a contradiction; deny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.
- transitive verb To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
- transitive verb obsolete To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To speak against; to
forbid . - verb To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).
- verb To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be in contradiction with
- verb prove negative; show to be false
- verb be resistant to
- verb deny the truth of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Even the word contradict implies a civilized disagreement “Father, I beg to differ with you” as opposed to the humiliating public showdowns many of us have experienced.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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Even the word contradict implies a civilized disagreement “Father, I beg to differ with you” as opposed to the humiliating public showdowns many of us have experienced.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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#31 – Coldlimptruth – see posts 12, 19, and 27 … they show how Karls word contradict Karls words.
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The meanings and inferences associated with the subject (omnipotence = physical power) of a counterintuitive expression contradict those associated with the predicate (insubstantial = lack of physical substance), as in the expressions “the bachelor is married” or “the deceased is alive.”
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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The meanings and inferences associated with the subject (omnipotence = physical power) of a counterintuitive expression contradict those associated with the predicate (insubstantial = lack of physical substance), as in the expressions “the bachelor is married” or “the deceased is alive.”
Counterintuition 2005
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But Suong also smiled tolerantly when the others boasted to us and never said a word to contradict them.
The Village Bing West 2000
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But Suong also smiled tolerantly when the others boasted to us and never said a word to contradict them.
The Village Bing West 2000
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But Suong also smiled tolerantly when the others boasted to us and never said a word to contradict them.
The Village Bing West 2000
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But Suong also smiled tolerantly when the others boasted to us and never said a word to contradict them.
The Village Bing West 2000
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If it makes you feel good to believe that Obama is a narco-terrorist socialist Nazi Muslim crypto-fascist dictator from another planet, then, hey, it's true (or truthy, in Colbert's lexicon) and never mind that all those terms contradict each other.
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