to contradict
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3.7
- verb
- /ˌkɒntrəˈdɪkt/
:
contradecir
- Because if we contradict each other at all, things will get complicated.
- contradict each other
- contradict the findings
- contradict previous findings
But we tend to ignore data when it contradicts our views.
- But we tend to ignore data when it contradicts our views.
- But more to the point, that contradicts what she said before.
- Unfortunately, we live in a story that contradicts what the heart knows.
- And I think that those things don't have to all contradict each other.
- Of course, the numbers totally contradict that.
- So of course, of course you have to adapt your beliefs when your experiments contradict those beliefs.
- If you in any way contradict the leftist orthodoxies, you can be cancelled.
- The intellect doesn't mean that it contradicts it or negates it.
- And that you never, you never just contradict or at least challenge someone to.
Examples
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Her actions contradict her words, making it hard to trust her.
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Unfortunately, we live in a story that contradicts what the heart knows.
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Nothing that we can do that we do can contradict the word of God.
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And that you never, you never just contradict or at least challenge someone to.
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I know that by saying this, I contradict everything that I have written.
Fiction book (1995) -
But if we accept that, that contradicts what we started with.
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But more to the point, that contradicts what she said before.
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These two claims flatly contradict one another.
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But we tend to ignore data when it contradicts our views.
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What if later research contradicts the data that support the salutary effects of marriage?
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
∞
2.0
To say that something is not true
88
6.2
To show that an idea or statement is false using evidence
66
4.5
To show that an idea or claim is not true
52
5.3
To make something no longer work or be true
26
8.6
Make a person or thing seem different from how they really are
21
7.0
To say or show that a claim is wrong
1
8.3
To say that an idea or claim is not true
1
7.4
To show by facts that an idea or belief is not true
1
8.3
To say that a statement is not true
To answer an argument with an opposing idea
Antonyms
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
contradict = contra + dict
The verb is analyzable as contra- (against) + dict- (say), but these are Latin combining forms rather than standalone modern English words, so the meaning is partly inferable by learners familiar with 'dict' in other words but not fully transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Contradict comes from the Latin parts contra ('against') and dicere ('to say'). So to contradict someone is to 'say against' them — to say the opposite or to show something is not true. The same dic- root appears in dictionary and dictate, which are about words and saying.