contradicted
- 01 B2 Upper Intermediate
v.to say that a statement is not true or that someone is wrong.
v.to assert the opposite of a statement made by another person. Transitive, requiring a direct object.
Simple“He contradicted his boss during the meeting, claiming the sales figures were actually much lower.”
In context“The witness repeatedly contradicted her own testimony under cross-examination, leading the jury to doubt her credibility entirely.”
- 02 B2 Upper Intermediate
v.when two facts or pieces of evidence are so different that they cannot both be right.
v.to be logically inconsistent with something else so that both cannot be true simultaneously.
Simple“The new evidence contradicted the police's original theory about how the fire started.”
In context“The experimental results flatly contradicted the established laws of thermodynamics, prompting a complete review of the laboratory equipment.”
- 03 C1 Advanced
adj.describes an idea or statement that people have said is wrong.
adj.denoting a claim or statement that has been formally disputed or shown to be inconsistent. Often functions as a past-participle adjective.
Simple“The contradicted report was removed from the website until the facts could be checked.”
In context“The researcher struggled to defend his contradicted hypothesis in front of the skeptical panel of experts.”
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“If an explanation contradicted something they'd learned, they were quick to reject it.”
“But eyewitness accounts contradicted that version of events, with passengers telling officials that appeals to turn back to port had fallen on deaf ears as the ferry began to take on water.”