Definition of Contradict

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Contradict

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.

To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.

To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.

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Contradict Quotations

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren Kierkegaard

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James

Contradict Translations

contradict in Dutch is tegenspreken, in tegenspraak zijn met
contradict in German is widersprechen, widerspreche
contradict in Italian is contraddire
contradict in Norwegian is motsi
contradict in Spanish is contradecir

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