Synonyms of saying

saying 1 of 2

noun

ˈsā-iŋ 

as in proverb

an often stated observation regarding something from common experience

there's an old saying that you should let sleeping dogs lie

Synonyms & Similar Words

• proverb
• word
• saw
• motto
• adage
• maxim
• aphorism
• epigram
• expression
• remark
• truth
• cliché
• byword
• apothegm
• sententia
• comment
• axiom
• commonplace
• truism
• bromide
• platitude
• formula
• precept
• note
• reflection
• wheeze
• felicity

saying

2 of 2

verb

present participle of say

1

as in telling

to express (a thought or emotion) in words

why don't you just say what's on your mind?

Synonyms & Similar Words

• telling
• talking
• uttering
• speaking
• discussing
• stating
• sharing
• announcing
• articulating
• verbalizing
• shouting
• giving
• enunciating
• vocalizing
• putting
• bringing out
• posting
• passing
• proclaiming
• looking
• voicing
• declaring
• publishing
• whispering
• putting into words
• affirming
• sounding
• asserting
• blurting
• alleging
• commenting
• airing
• promulgating
• ventilating
• venting
• mouthing
• publicizing
• remarking
• advertising
• murmuring
• avowing
• blabbering
• broadcasting
• averring
• getting off
• formulating
• gasping
• spouting
• wording
• breathing
• phrasing
• chirping
• blazing
• bolting
• drawling
• purring
• clothing
• shooting
• spluttering
• snarling
• couching
• lipping
• ripping (out)
• avouching
• formulizing
• piping up (with)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suppressing
• stifling

2

as in expressing

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 & Similar Words

• expressing
• stating
• articulating
• putting
• describing
• formulating
• wording
• clothing
• phrasing
• implying
• suggesting
• telling
• translating
• speaking
• hinting
• summarizing
• couching
• intimating
• paraphrasing
• disclosing
• restating
• insinuating
• talking
• crafting
• uttering
• communicating
• framing
• rephrasing
• verbalizing
• rewording
• rendering
• vocalizing
• writing up

3

as in reciting

to give from memory

say your prayers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reciting
• memorizing
• repeating
• speaking
• studying
• reeling off
• learning
• mouthing
• conning
• declaiming
• orating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reading

4

as in assuming

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof

let's say, for the sake of argument, that this is true

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assuming
• presuming
• believing
• thinking
• concluding
• supposing
• guessing
• postulating
• hypothesizing
• figuring
• presupposing
• insisting
• dreaming
• accepting
• imagining
• claiming
• premising
• hypothecating
• suspecting
• declaring
• inferring
• taking for granted
• speculating
• crediting
• judging
• deducing
• swallowing
• asserting
• perceiving
• maintaining
• surmising
• alleging
• affirming
• contending
• fancying
• conjecturing
• theorizing
• gathering
• suspicioning
• conceiving
• taking
• avowing
• averring
• professing
• reckoning
• preconceiving
• avouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• doubting
• wondering (about)
• questioning
• disputing
• discounting
• denying
• challenging
• disbelieving
• discrediting
• disagreeing (with)
• controverting
• rejecting
• distrusting
• disclaiming
• repudiating
• disavowing
• refuting
• mistrusting
• disproving
• rebutting
• disowning
• belying
• confuting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of saying

Noun

Where the most hopelessly corny sayings are painstakingly stitched into the equivalent of cloth graph paper by women who believe in the sayings and give the plaques to people who do not believe in the sayings. — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026

Rodriques, who formerly ran the Applied Biotechnology Lab at the Francis Crick Institute, recalled the executive saying. — Brittany Trang, STAT, 29 June 2026

Verb

Still, if everyone should take precautions against the heat, what is really gained by saying that kids are at extra-special risk? — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026

The Florida Supreme Court also rejected that argument, saying there was sufficient evidence that Patty Gifford was dead and that Sochor is the one who killed her. — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 July 2026