English search results for: contradict

#1

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation

Definitions:

  1. gainsay/contradict
  2. speak against/speak for adversary, oppose/object to/contest
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. contradict
  2. deny
  3. disown
  4. not confess/acknowledge
  5. repudiate (claim)
  6. withhold
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation

Definitions:

  1. contradict
  2. deny, refuse
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980