say

say

verb

Definition of SAY

1

to express (a thought or emotion) in words <why don't you just say what's on your mind?>

Synonyms articulate, bring out, enunciate, pass, speak, state, talk, tell, utter, verbalize, vocalize

Related Words air, discuss, give, look, share, sound, vent, ventilate, voice; blabber, bolt, blurt, get off, shoot; advertise, announce, blaze, broadcast, declare, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish; affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow; breathe, chirp, drawl, gasp, lip, mouth, murmur, purr, shout, splutter, spout, whisper; clothe, couch, formulate, formulize, phrase, put, word; comment, pipe up (with), remark; rip (out), snarl

Phrases put into words

Near Antonyms stifle, suppress

2

to convey in appropriate or telling terms <I'm not quite sure how to say this, but that's the worst essay I've ever read>

Synonyms articulate, clothe, couch, express, formulate, put, say, state, word

Related Words craft, frame; hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, suggest; paraphrase, rephrase, restate, reword, summarize, translate; communicate, disclose, speak, talk, tell, utter, verbalize, vocalize; describe, render, write up

3

to give from memory <say your prayers>

Synonyms recite, reel off, say

Related Words con, learn, memorize, study; declaim, mouth, orate, speak

Near Antonyms read

4

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof <let's say, for the sake of argument, that this is true>

Synonyms hypothecate, hypothesize, postulate, premise, presume, presuppose, say, suppose

Related Words accept, believe, credit, swallow; conclude, deduce, gather, infer, judge, take; conjecture, figure, guess, reckon [chiefly dialect], surmise, suspect, suspicion [chiefly dialect], think; conceive, dream, fancy, imagine, perceive, preconceive; speculate, theorize; affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, declare, insist, maintain, profess

Near Antonyms challenge, controvert, disagree (with), disbelieve, discount, discredit, dispute, distrust, doubt, mistrust, question, wonder (about); deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, reject, repudiate; belie, confute, disprove, rebut, refute