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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contradict
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
directly
▪ Implied terms can thus supplement express rules, or introduce new rules, but can not directly contradict an existing rule.
▪ Also, much of the advice found in one book directly contradicts that found in another.
▪ This directly contradicted statements made by both Reagan and Weinberger.
▪ This is most curious, considering that in the same column he seems to directly contradict this very point.
flatly
▪ It is also true that the two main Opposition parties have energy policies which are flatly contradicted by their environmental policies.
▪ Since the trauma of 1929, few people contest this need, although it flatly contradicts the tradition of economic liberalism.
■ NOUN
claim
▪ The result was disappointing because it so patently contradicted his claim to be a truly national leader.
▪ Notice that the name Makah has a nasal consonant-thus appearing to contradict the claim that these languages have no nasals.
evidence
▪ The experimental evidence does not contradict this view, although it doesn't support it very strongly either.
▪ There is no evidence or testimony contradicting those statements.
▪ Their ideologies create enclosed belief-systems that can not be affected by evidence which contradicts them.
▪ Mrs Clinton has said she had no role in that phase of the matter, and no evidence contradicts her.
▪ However, the evidence contradicts this.
▪ For this reason, evidence contradicting previously accepted beliefs is difficult to believe and to write about.
▪ Further evidence contradicting the traditional symmetric rift valley model comes from observations of their morphology and surface structure.
▪ Research evidence contradicts the commonly held belief that neonates do not perceive pain. 2.
other
▪ Villagers' stories contradict each other.
▪ After all, the two clauses appear to contradict each other.
statement
▪ Pavlov's allegations contradicted earlier official statements which portrayed the currency confiscation as an attack on black marketeers and excess money supply.
▪ There is no evidence or testimony contradicting those statements.
▪ The brief contradicts statements made by Philip Morris executives in congressional hearings, the lobbyist said.
▪ This directly contradicted statements made by both Reagan and Weinberger.
view
▪ The experimental evidence does not contradict this view, although it doesn't support it very strongly either.
▪ They do not necessarily contradict the view that for more serious crimes women are less severely treated then men.
■ VERB
appear
▪ For this reason, it is important to examine those societies that appear to contradict much of scientific and commonsensical explanation.
▪ Notice that the name Makah has a nasal consonant-thus appearing to contradict the claim that these languages have no nasals.
▪ The fact that there were generally fluctuations in rated subjective risk might appear to contradict zero-risk theory.
▪ Yet at times kungfu appears to contradict itself, professing one thing while seeming to do the opposite.
▪ After all, the two clauses appear to contradict each other.
▪ The survey appears to contradict motor industry claims that customers still rate high performance as one of the most desirable attributes.
seem
▪ Nobody in his camp seemed willing to contradict him.
▪ Mitchell was by nature cautious with people although the island seemed to contradict this tendency in him.
▪ The evidence, however, seems to contradict this.
▪ This is most curious, considering that in the same column he seems to directly contradict this very point.
▪ All this seems to contradict the expectation of the manipulation theorists.
▪ Have you had lots of instruction with each new teacher seeming to contradict the one before?
▪ Yet these are feelings which seem to contradict the universalist, rational aspirations of liberalism.
▪ This would seem to contradict, however, the notion of major transgressions being the much-delayed after-effects of an orogeny.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Heating the water to 150° F kills bacteria but contradicts efforts to save energy.
▪ O'Brien's later statement contradicted what he had told Somerville police on the night of the murder.
▪ Recent experiments seem to contradict earlier results.
▪ Smith gave an account that contradicted the woman's tearful testimony last week.
▪ The two newspaper reports totally contradict each other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, much of the advice found in one book directly contradicts that found in another.
▪ Implied terms can thus supplement express rules, or introduce new rules, but can not directly contradict an existing rule.
▪ It would hearten the many feminists who crowded the church that night without contradicting the teachings of the magisterium.
▪ Something was wrong; what I read contradicted the sight of these travelers.
▪ There is no evidence or testimony contradicting those statements.
▪ This would contradict the open-ended accessibility that is the hallmark of unit trusts.
▪ To create a more original effect well-known phrases and sayings can be contrasted with others which contradict them.
▪ What he must do is to formulate an assertion which contradicts our own, and give us his instruction for testing it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contradict

Contradict \Con`tra*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contradicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Contradicting.] [L. contradictus, p. p. of contradicere to speak against; contra + dicere to speak. See Diction.]

  1. 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.

    Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so.
    --Shak.

    The future can not contradict the past.
    --Wordsworth.

  2. To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist. [Obs.]

    No truth can contradict another truth.
    --Hooker.

    A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents.
    --Shak.

Contradict

Contradict \Con`tra*dict\, v. i. To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.

They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
--Acts xiii. 45.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
contradict

1570s, "speak against," also "assert the contrary" (1580s), from Latin contradictus, past participle of contradicere (see contradiction). Related: Contradicted; contradicting; contradictive.

Wiktionary
contradict

vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To speak against; to forbid. 2 To deny the truth of (a statement or statements). 3 To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person). 4 To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.

WordNet
contradict

  1. v. be in contradiction with [syn: belie, negate]

  2. deny the truth of [syn: negate, contravene]

  3. be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion" [syn: oppose, controvert]

  4. prove negative; show to be false [syn: negate] [ant: confirm]

Usage examples of "contradict".

Although Delaura had sought the support of distinguished members of his own order and even of other communities, none had dared challenge the acta of the convent or contradict popular credulity.

This contradicts the convention of this book, and is being used in the section on Alberti only to avoid altering his text.

The Minister of War disagreed with Batu, and the older generals knew it would not be prudent to contradict their superior.

She was simply but elegantly attired and coiffured, the kind of woman who might have been designed by a Bauhaus architect, except for her bosom, whose free-flowing volume all but contradicted the severe planes of the rest of her body, impeding her balance, creating such a clashing contrast that, speaking strictly aesthetically, she might have benefited from a double mastectomy.

And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.

If injustice is bad for the rebel, it is not because it contradicts an eternal idea of justice, but because it perpetuates the silent hostility that separates the oppressor from the oppressed.

Now it is worth while to pause upon that story because, as has been suggested, it directly contradicts the impression still current that nomadism is merely a prehistoric thing and social settlement a comparatively recent thing.

Philosophers, that the reflection of the Sunne-beames from the earth doth not reach much above halfe a mile high, where they terminate the first region, so that to affirme they might ascend to the moone, were to say, there were but one region of aier, which contradicts the proved and received opinion.

Celarent, simply converted, contradicts the original major premise of Dimaris, and is therefore false.

Please, read the rest, and show me where it contradicts reality as we know it.

Therefore it is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

That contradicts the attitude that we know Jesus had toward women, but it fits well with the Gnostic mind-set.

But the spiritual character of their knowledge of God was gradually obscured, God was dragged into the sphere of sense and lower divinities were associated with Him,--a downward development which absolutely contradicts the Darwinian hypothesis.

What could be said with certainty to contradict his perfectly reasonable and plausible claim of having driven from Deauville to Paris?

Nari and Cook said that his mother made the prettiest dolls in Skala and he saw nothing here to contradict them.