ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsGgainsay
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gainsay
Meaning: to deny, contradict, or speak against
gainsay in a sentence
How gainsay is used in real sentences:
No one could gainsay the evidence shown in the photographs.
Even her rivals could not gainsay the fairness of the decision.
“Still, no one could gainsay the time-stamped photographs, which matched her notebooks and helped vindicate her team against the charge of fraud.”
— from the passage The Patient Burn
“Now laboratory reports lay in her case, and no official could gainsay measurements repeated by three independent hospitals.”
— from the passage The Case She Carried
“No surviving committee member could gainsay the chemical evidence, which linked the contaminant to soldered scrap rather than Vane's furnace practice.”
— from the passage The Fault in the Bronze
Synonyms for gainsay
Other words for gainsay — deny, contradict and dispute — carry the same meaning.
- deny
- contradict
- dispute
Antonyms of gainsay
Words that mean the opposite of gainsay:
- affirm
- admit
- confirm
Where it comes from
From Old English gegn, 'against,' and say, meaning 'speak against.'
Memory hook
GAINSAY means to say against something.