Gainsaying
61retraction — Synonyms and related words: abandonment, abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, attrition, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, cession, contradiction, contrary assertion,… …
62revocation — Synonyms and related words: abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering,… …
63negative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. denying (see negation); minus (see deduction). n. negation. See photography. Ant., positive; plus. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Involving a refusal] Syn. denying, negatory, dissentient, disavowing,… …
64objection — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. remonstrance, protest; drawback, criticism; barrier, obstacle; exception, protestation. See disapprobation, hindrance, dissent.Ant., acceptance, agreement. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The reason for… …
65opposing — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of opposition] Syn. conflicting, clashing, combating, fending, objecting, disagreeing, exposing, disputing, denying, protesting, controverting, crossing, gainsaying, battling, confronting, reversing,… …
66retraction — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. recantation, disowning, disavowal, abjuration, denial, revocation, recall, withdrawal, annulment, forswearing, unsaying, repudiation, nullification, quashing, abrogation, reversal, rescindment, renouncing, disclaimer,… …
67antiloquy — speaking against some idea; contradicting or gainsaying Styles of Speech …
68gainsay — (v.) contradict, c.1300, lit. say against, from O.E. gegn against (see AGAIN (Cf. again)) + SAY (Cf. say). Solitary survival of a once common prefix [Weekley], which was used to form such now obsolete compounds as gain taking taking back again,… …
69climb up, climb down — Climb down, as purists sometimes point out, is a patent contradiction. But there you are. Idiom has embraced it, as it has many other patent absurdities, and there is no gainsaying it now. Climb up, in contrast, is always redundant when climb… …
70climb up, climb down — Climb down, as purists sometimes point out, is a patent contradiction. But there you are. Idiom has embraced it, as it has many other patent absurdities, and there is no gainsaying it now. Climb up, in contrast, is always redundant when climb… …
