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sayingnoun an often stated observation regarding something from common experiencethere's an old saying that you should let sleeping dogs lie adage, aphorism, apothegm, byword, epigram, maxim, proverb, saw, sententia, word bromide, cliché(also cliche), commonplace, platitude, wheezeexpression, felicityaxiom, motto, precept, truism, truthformulacomment, note, reflection, remark sayingverbpresent participle of sayto express (a thought or emotion) in wordswhy don't you just say what's on your mind? articulating, bringing out, enunciating, passing, speaking, stating, talking, telling, uttering, verbalizing, vocalizing airing, discussing, giving, looking, sharing, sounding, ventilating, venting, voicingblabbering, blurting, bolting, getting off, shootingadvertising, announcing, blazing, broadcasting, declaring, posting, proclaiming, promulgating, publicizing, publishingaffirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowingbreathing, chirping, drawling, gasping, lipping, mouthing, murmuring, purring, shouting, spluttering, spouting, whisperingclothing, couching, formulating, formulizing, phrasing, putting, wordingcommenting, piping up (with), remarkingripping (out), snarling putting into words stifling, suppressing to convey in appropriate or telling termsI'm not quite sure how to say this, but that's the worst essay I've ever read articulating, clothing, couching, expressing, formulating, phrasing, putting, stating, wording crafting, framinghinting, implying, insinuating, intimating, suggestingparaphrasing, rephrasing, restating, rewording, summarizing, translatingcommunicating, disclosing, speaking, talking, telling, uttering, verbalizing, vocalizingdescribing, rendering, writing up to give from memorysay your prayers reciting, reeling off, repeating conning, learning, memorizing, studyingdeclaiming, mouthing, orating, speaking reading to take as true or as a fact without actual prooflet's say, for the sake of argument, that this is true assuming, hypothecating, hypothesizing, postulating, premising, presuming, presupposing, supposing accepting, believing, crediting, swallowingconcluding, deducing, gathering, inferring, judging, takingconjecturing, figuring, guessing, reckoning(chiefly dialect), surmising, suspecting, suspicioning(chiefly dialect), thinkingconceiving, dreaming, fancying, imagining, perceiving, preconceivingspeculating, theorizingaffirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing, claiming, contending, declaring, insisting, maintaining, professing taking for granted challenging, controverting, disagreeing (with), disbelieving, discounting, discrediting, disputing, distrusting, doubting, mistrusting, questioning, wondering (about)denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, rejecting, repudiatingbelying, confuting, disproving, rebutting, refuting in the 14th century |