Usually means: To deny or dispute something.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word gainsay:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. gainsay: Merriam-Webster
  2. gainsay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gainsay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gainsay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gainsay: Vocabulary.com
  6. gainsay: Wordnik
  7. gainsay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gainsay: Wiktionary
  9. gainsay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gainsay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gainsay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gainsay, gainsay: Dictionary.com
  13. gainsay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gainsay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gainsay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gainsay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gainsay: Rhymezone
  18. Gainsay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gainsay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. gainsay: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gainsay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. gainsay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. gainsay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gainsay: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gainsay: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gainsay, gainsay: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GAINSAY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gainsay: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gainsaid as well.)

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verb:  (transitive, formal) To say something in contradiction to.

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