DENY  否定非

SPEAK:say that something that has been SAID is UNTRUE.SPEAK:say that SOMETHING is NOT TRUE.
CONTRADICTCONTROVERTREPUDIATECHALLENGECOUNTERCONTESTOPPOSEREBUTINFORMAL POKE HOLES INFORMAL GAINSAY
Antonym
  • ADMITASSENT to what the LISTENER has in the PAST DECLARED to be TRUE OR what the LISTENER is BELIEVED to BELIEVE is TRUE.
    Hypernym
    • SPEAKACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
          • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
    Hyponym
    • ATHEISM　DENIAL that DEITIES EXIT.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. There are no common words for denial in pre-Buddhist Chinese. Fēi 非 has declarative transitive uses, I think, but I have not yet identified a clear relevant example.

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      否定 is the current modern word for denial.

      否決 is to make or pass a decision against something.

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 18.34

      • De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione ( COMENIUS 1665) p. 495

        CONTRADICERE aliqvid ab aliqvo affirmatum negare, aut contra. hoc ut sit legitimum opus est 1. rem aliter scire. 2. certo scire. 3.Scire usum contraditionis.

        Detailed analysis

      • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 18

      • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. NO. 95

      Words

      無  wú MC: mju OC: maCH 2 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • vtoNdeclarativedeny the existence ofCH
      否  fǒu OC: pɯʔ MC: pɨu 0 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • vtoNdeny
      非  fēi OC: pɯl MC: pɨi 0 Attributions

      There are no common words for denial in pre-Buddhist Chinese. Fēi 非 has declarative transitive uses, I think, but I have not yet identified a clear relevant example.

        Syntactic words
      • vtoNcausativeconsider as wrong, gainsay
      食  shí OC: ɢljɯɡ MC: ʑɨk 0 Attributions
        Syntactic words
      • vtoNdeny 食言 "deny one's earlier statements"

      Existing SW for

      Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: