Both Uses of
contradict
in
Misery, by Stephen King
- He understood how she could like what he had written and still know it was not right, know it and say it not with an editor's sometimes untrustworthy literary sophistication but with Constant Reader's flat and uncontradictable certainty.†
Chpt 2uncontradictable = not able to be disagreed withstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontradictable means not and reverses the meaning of contradictable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- In an act of self-preservation, part of his imagination had, over the last few weeks, actually become Annie, and it was now this Annie-part that spoke up in its dry and uncontradictable voice.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
disagree
in various senses, including:
- to say something is not true -- as in "She contradicted his testimony."
- to say something else is true when both can't be true -- as in "I don't believe her. She contradicted herself as she told us what happened."
- to be in conflict with -- as in "Her assertions contradict accepted scientific principles."