Contradict

Definition: Contradict

Contradict

Verb

1. Be in contradiction with.

2. Deny the truth of.

3. Be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion.".

4. Prove negative; show to be false.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "contradict" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Contradict

Contrariety

Contradict, contravene; antagonize.

Dissent

Verb: dissent, demur; call in question; (doubt); differ in opinion, disagree; say no; refuse assent, refuse to admit; cavil, protest, raise one's voice against, repudiate; contradict; (deny).

Evidence

Verb: countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut; (refute); subvert; (destroy); cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict; (deny); tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative.

Negation

Verb: deny; contradict, contravene; controvert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head.

Opposition

Contradict, contravene; belie; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; come in conflict with.

Crosswords: Contradict

St. John Polevaulter, why do you contradict people? (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

Shh! I understand you don't contradict people. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

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And this assertion Sylvie did not venture to contradict.

This is what gives Folard the right to contradict Polybius.

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Business

It does not permit citizens to publish or broadcast criticism of senior leaders or opinions that contradict basic Communist Party doctrine. (references)

As in other industry sectors, companies (local and foreign) have found themselves under the jurisdiction of central, provincial and local government bodies, some of which issue or implement regulations that overlap, contradict one another, or which are simply unclear. (references)

Civil Liberties

Lebanon

A group that seeks official recognition must submit its dogma and moral principles for government review to ensure that such principles do not contradict popular values and the Constitution. (references)

Nepal

The Constitution prohibits speech and writing that would threaten the sovereignty and integrity of the Kingdom; disturb the harmonious relations among persons of different castes or communities; promote sedition, defamation, contempt of court, or crime; or contradict decent public behavior or morality. (references)

Vietnam

The Penal Code, as amended in 1997, established penalties for offenses that are defined only vaguely, including "attempting to undermine national unity" by promoting "division between religious believers and nonbelievers." In some cases, particularly involving Hmong Protestants, when authorities charge persons with practicing religion illegally, they use provisions of the Penal Code that allow for jail terms of up to 3 years for "abusing freedom of speech, press, or religion." There were reports that officials fabricated evidence, and some of the provisions of the law used to convict religious prisoners contradict international instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

They also appear to contradict the 1994 U.S.-Kazakhstan Bilateral Investment Treaty. (references)

Lebanon

Local courts accept investment agreements drafted subject to foreign jurisdiction, if the latter does not contradict Lebanese law. (references)

Armenia

Many of the laws related to business have numerous sub-regulations and norms that often change, are difficult to trace, and can contradict one another. (references)

Human Rights

Taiwan

International observers also have noted that the judicial system sometimes has accepted confessions even when they contradict available physical evidence or logic. (references)

Colombia

Regular court defendants and their attorneys have the right to question, contradict, and confront witnesses against them, to present witnesses on their own behalf, and to have access to government evidence relevant to the case. (references)

Political Economy

Russia

Existing laws on military courts, military service, and the rights of service members often contradict the Constitution, federal laws, and presidential decrees, raising arbitrary judgments of unit commanders over the rule of law. (references)

Political Rights

Moldova

The Gagauz elected a new governor and 35 deputies to their Popular Assembly in free and fair elections in September 1999. The Gagauz complained frequently that the central Government does not abide by the terms of the agreement giving Gagauzia autonomous status and that it enacts laws that directly contradict both Gagauz legislation and national legislation establishing Gagauz autonomy. (references)

Trade

Australia

Any additional information applied and/or labeled on the packages must be true and may not contradict or obscure the information required as part of the trade description. (references)

Worker Rights

Turkey

The Government asserts that the law does not contradict the Committees' principles. (references)

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Expressions using "contradict": contradict oneself ♦ contradict smth.. Additional references.

Albanian

kundërshtoj (censure, challenge, combat, condemn, contest, controvert, counter, cross, demur, deprecate, discountenance, discourage, dispute, flout, fly in the face of, gainsay, impugn, kick, mind, object, oppose, oppugn, protest, react, rebel, rebuke, rebut, recalcitrate, refuse, resist, retort, set one's face against, stick to, stickle, Stonewall, take exception to), hedh poshtë (censure, confute, controvert, decline, demolish, detrude, disclaim, disprove, dispute, knock out, push aside, rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, sweep away, turn down, wave aside). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كذب (deceive, delude, disclaim, dishonesty, fable, falsehood, falseness, falsify, falsity, fib, impugn, lie, lying, mendacity, mislead, untruth), ‏نكر (controvert, deny, deny oneself, disallow, disbelieve, disclaim, gainsay, negate, negative, rebut, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, unreel), ‏ناقض (belie, rebut), ‏تعارض (clash, collide, collision, conflict, disagree, disagreement, discrepancy, fly in the face of, incongruity, interfere, repugnance, run against smth.). (various references)

Bulgarian 

опровергавам (belie, confute, deflate, deny, disprove, impugn, negative, overturn, rebut, refute), противореча на (contravene). (various references)

Chinese 

駁 (argue, dispute, parti-colored, refute, tranship), 牴觸 , 抗辩 (Contradicted, Contradicting). (various references)

Czech

popírat (controvert, deny, negate), odporovat (antagonize, contravene, gainsay, go against, oppose, protest, resist, withstand), odmlouvat komu. (various references)

Dutch

tegenspreken (challenge, question). (various references)

Esperanto

kontraŭdiri. (various references)

Farsi 

مخالف بودن با, تناقض داشتن با. (various references)

Finnish

väittää vastaan (challenge, object), inttää vastaan (argue against). (various references)

French

contredire. (various references)

German

widersprechen (answer back, be inconsistent with, belie, conflict, contradiction, disagree, dissent, gainsay, to contradict, to disagree, to dissent, to object). (various references)

Greek 

αντιφάσκω (tergiversate), αντιλέγω (object, oppugn), διαψεύδω (belie, defeat, gainsay, refute). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשלול (bereave, deny, deprive, disapprove, negate, rebut, refuse, veto), ל�"תריס (argue, challenge, defy, protest against, reproof), לסתור (destroy, disarray, dishevel, invalidate, oppose, rebut, refute, upset), ל� �'ו�" (be against, oppose). (various references)

Hungarian

megcáfol (disprove, rebut, refute, repel, to belie, to confute, to disprove, to negative, to rebut, to refute), ellentmond (gainsaid, oppugn, to clash, to contradict, to contravene, to gainsay). (various references)

Indonesian

menyangkal (confute, controvert, deny, disclaim, disprove, gainsay, negate), menyanggah (disprove, oppose, protest), mendebat (argue). (various references)

Italian

contraddire (contradict oneself, gainsay). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"消す (to contradict, to deny, to negate), �"ち消す (to contradict, to deny, to negate), 反する (to be inconsistent with, to contradict, to oppose, to rebel, to transgress). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うちけす (to contradict, to deny, to negate), は�"する (to be inconsistent with, to contradict, to oppose, to rebel, to transgress). (various references)

Korean 

모순되십시�". (various references)

Manx

loayrt noi, cur y vreag er (belie, confute). (various references)

Norwegian

motsi. (various references)

Pig Latin

ontradictcay

Portuguese

contradizer (deny, disaffirm, gainsay). (various references)

Romanian

contrazice (belie, confute, counter, gainsay, ruffle). (various references)

Russian 

противоречить (be at variance, be in contrast to, be in contrast with, disagree, fly in the face of, gainsay, run counter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

protivrečiti (belie, disagree, gainsay). (various references)

Spanish

contradecir (controvert, gainsay). (various references)

Swedish

motsäga (belie, gainsay, impugn, negate), dementera (deny). (various references)

Turkish

yalanlamak (belie, call back, confute, controvert, deny, disavow, disclaim, disprove, give the lie to, impugn, kill, oppugn, refute), ters düşmek (be contradictory, be contrary, belie, collide, differ, go against), aksini iddia etmek (argue against smth., disaffirm), çelişmek (be in contradiction with, belie, contrast). (various references)

Ukrainian

суперечити (belie, conflict with, counter, cut across, disagree, gainsay), заперечувати (abnegate, answer, answer back, challenge, contravene, demur, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, expostulate, forbid, gainsay, impugn, mind, negative, nill, object, oppugn, rejoin, talk back). (various references)

Welsh

gwrth-ddweud. (various references)

infitians. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "contradict": contradictable, contradicted, contradicting, contradiction, contradictions, contradictious, contradictor, contradictories, contradictorily, contradictoriness, contradictorinesses, contradictors, contradictory, contradicts. (additional references)

Words containing "contradict": noncontradiction, noncontradictions, noncontradictory, uncontradicted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Contradict" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Contrada, contradic, contradick, contrdict, contridict, controdict, Contronics. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cancroid, contract, cratonic, dictator, draconic, narcotic, tornadic, traction.

-3 letters: acronic, acrotic, cactoid, carotid, carotin, citator, contact, diatron, octadic, ricotta, taction, tantric.

-4 letters: accord, action, adroit, anodic, aortic, arctic, aroint, atonic, attorn, candor, cantic, cantor, carton, cation, citron, cocain, contra, cortin, cottar, craton, dacoit, inroad, intact, intort, nordic, octant, ordain, rancid, ration, ratton, tactic.

+1 letter: contradicts.

+2 letters: contradicted, contradictor.

+3 letters: accreditation, contradicting, contradiction, contradictors, contradictory, decorticating, decortication.

+4 letters: accreditations, antidemocratic, contradictable, contradictions, contradictious, contraindicate, cotransduction, decortications, uncontradicted.

+5 letters: contradictories, contradictorily, contraindicated, contraindicates, cotransductions, decertification, deconcentrating, deconcentration, noncertificated, reaccreditation.