say

The word “say” has 1 syllable: say

It's pronounced as /seɪ/


What is synonym and antonym for say?

In the thesaurus, “say” has 198 synonyms and 47 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for say along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for say

  • about
  • accept
  • add
  • advertise
  • affirm
  • after a fashion
  • air
  • allege
  • announce
  • answer
  • approximately
  • around
  • articulate
  • assert
  • assume
  • aver
  • avouch
  • avow
  • ballot
  • belief
  • believe
  • blabber
  • blaze
  • blurt
  • bolt
  • break silence
  • breathe
  • bring out
  • broadcast
  • chirp
  • claim
  • clothe
  • come out with
  • comment
  • communicate
  • con
  • conceive
  • conclude
  • conjecture
  • contend
  • convey
  • conviction
  • couch
  • craft
  • credit
  • declaim
  • declare
  • deduce
  • deliver
  • describe
  • disclose
  • discuss
  • divulge
  • do
  • drawl
  • dream
  • enfranchisement
  • enunciate
  • estimate
  • express
  • fancy
  • figure
  • flap
  • formulate
  • formulize
  • frame
  • franchise
  • gab
  • gasp
  • gather
  • generally
  • get off
  • give
  • give voice
  • guess
  • hint
  • hypothecate
  • hypothesize
  • imagine
  • imply
  • infer
  • insinuate
  • insist
  • intimate
  • jaw
  • judge
  • judgement
  • judgment
  • kind of
  • learn
  • like
  • lip
  • look
  • loosely
  • maintain
  • make known
  • memorize
  • mention
  • more or less
  • mouth
  • much
  • murmur
  • near
  • nearly
  • nominally
  • opine
  • opinion
  • orate
  • paraphrase
  • part
  • pass
  • perceive
  • perform
  • phrase
  • plus or minus
  • post
  • postulate
  • practically
  • preconceive
  • premise
  • presume
  • presuppose
  • proclaim
  • profess
  • promulgate
  • pronounce
  • publicize
  • publish
  • purr
  • put
  • put forth
  • put into words
  • rap
  • read
  • recite
  • reckon
  • reel off
  • rehearse
  • relate
  • remark
  • render
  • repeat
  • rephrase
  • reply
  • report
  • respond
  • restate
  • reveal
  • reword
  • role
  • roughly
  • rumor
  • say-so
  • sentiment
  • share
  • shoot
  • shout
  • snarl
  • some
  • somewhere about
  • somewhere around
  • sound
  • speak
  • speculate
  • spiel
  • splutter
  • spout
  • state
  • study
  • suffrage
  • suggest
  • summarize
  • suppose
  • surmise
  • suspect
  • suspicion
  • swallow
  • take
  • take for granted
  • talk
  • tell
  • theorize
  • think
  • translate
  • utter
  • vent
  • ventilate
  • verbalize
  • view
  • virtually
  • vocalize
  • voice
  • vote
  • well-nigh
  • whisper
  • word
  • write up
  • yak

Antonyms for say

  • ask
  • be quiet
  • belie
  • challenge
  • conceal
  • confute
  • controvert
  • deny
  • disavow
  • disbelieve
  • disclaim
  • discount
  • discredit
  • disown
  • disprove
  • dispute
  • distrust
  • doubt
  • due
  • even
  • exactly
  • fail
  • hide
  • hold
  • just
  • keep
  • keep secret
  • listen
  • mistrust
  • neglect
  • praise
  • precisely
  • question
  • read
  • rebut
  • refrain
  • refute
  • reject
  • repudiate
  • request
  • retain
  • sharp
  • smack-dab
  • squarely
  • stifle
  • suppress
  • withhold

Meanings of say

  • noun
    1. A chance to speak; the right or power to influence or make a decision.
    2. A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
    3. Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
    4. Tried quality; temper; proof.
    5. Essay; trial; attempt.
    6. A strainer for milk.
  • verb
    1. To pronounce.
    2. To recite.
    3. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
    4. To indicate in a written form.
    5. To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
    6. Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
    7. To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
    8. (of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
    9. To try; to assay.
  • adverb
    1. For example; let us assume.
  • interjection
    1. Used to gain someone's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion.

Example Sentences

  • What did you say about the new movie?
  • He didn't say anything during the meeting.
  • I can't say for sure if it's going to rain tomorrow.
  • She wanted to say thank you for the wonderful gift.
  • Some people say that hard work always pays off in the end.

On this page you'll find 245 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to say, such as: about, accept, add, advertise, affirm, after a fashion, air.

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Related Words

ukase

  • act
  • adjudication
  • advertisement
  • announcement
  • authorization
  • behest
  • bidding
  • broadcast
  • bull
  • call
  • canon
  • charge
  • charging
  • code
  • command
  • commandment
  • communication
  • conclusion
  • decision
  • declaration
  • decree
  • decretum
  • deliverance
  • determination
  • diagnosis
  • dictate
  • dictum
  • diktat
  • direction
  • directive
  • edict
  • enactment
  • encyclical
  • endorsement
  • fiat
  • finding
  • go ahead
  • green light
  • injunction
  • instruction
  • instrument
  • judgement
  • judgment
  • law
  • mandate
  • manifesto
  • memo
  • memorandum
  • message
  • notice
  • notification
  • opinion
  • order
  • ordinance
  • permission
  • precept
  • prescript
  • proclamation
  • promulgation
  • pronouncement
  • pronunciamento
  • publication
  • rap
  • reg
  • regulation
  • report
  • rescript
  • resolution
  • rule
  • ruling
  • sanction
  • say
  • say-so
  • signal
  • statute
  • stipulation
  • the riot act
  • the word
  • verdict
  • warrant
  • will
  • word
  • writ

about

  • abroad
  • across
  • adjacent
  • afloat
  • after a fashion
  • all but
  • all over
  • almost
  • along
  • alongside
  • any which way
  • anyhow
  • appreciably
  • approximately
  • apropos
  • apropos of
  • around
  • aroused
  • as concerns
  • as far as
  • as for
  • as good as
  • as regards
  • as respects
  • as to
  • astir
  • at
  • athwart
  • awake
  • awakened
  • aware
  • back
  • backward
  • backwards
  • behind
  • beside
  • borderline
  • by
  • by and large
  • chiefly
  • circa
  • concerning
  • conscious
  • counter
  • counterclockwise
  • dealing with
  • down
  • downward
  • downwards
  • encircling
  • everyplace
  • everywhere
  • fair
  • fairly
  • far and wide
  • feckly
  • generally
  • here and there
  • hereabout
  • hereabouts
  • high and low
  • in connection with
  • in general
  • in regard to
  • in relation to
  • in respect to
  • in reverse
  • in the ball park
  • in the neighborhood
  • in view of
  • insomniac
  • just about
  • kind of
  • largely
  • like
  • loosely
  • mainly
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearly
  • next door to
  • next to
  • nigh
  • nominally
  • obversely
  • of
  • on
  • over
  • partially
  • partly
  • passim
  • plus or minus
  • practically
  • pretty much
  • pretty nearly
  • rearward
  • rearwards
  • reawakened
  • referring to
  • regarding
  • relative to
  • respecting
  • reversely
  • revived
  • right and left
  • roughly
  • round
  • roused
  • rousted
  • say
  • sleepless
  • some
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • somewhere about
  • somewhere around
  • surrounding
  • through
  • throughout
  • touching
  • touching on
  • toward
  • towards
  • ubiquitously
  • up
  • virtually
  • wakeful
  • wakened
  • well-nigh
  • widdershins
  • wide-awake
  • with regard to
  • with respect to
  • withershins
  • within an inch of

editorialize

  • allow
  • articulate
  • comment
  • commentate
  • conjecture
  • daresay
  • express
  • guess
  • note
  • observe
  • opine
  • reflect
  • remark
  • say
  • speak
  • speculate
  • state
  • suppose
  • surmise
  • talk
  • tell
  • utter
  • verbalize
  • vocalize
  • weigh in

observe

raise

  • abet
  • accelerate
  • accession
  • acclaim
  • accretion
  • accrual
  • accumulate
  • accumulation
  • activate
  • addendum
  • addition
  • advance
  • advertise
  • aggrandize
  • aggravate
  • air
  • amass
  • amplify
  • announce
  • appendix
  • applaud
  • arouse
  • ascend
  • assemblage
  • assemble
  • attend
  • augment
  • augmentation
  • awaken
  • bare
  • begin
  • blow up
  • boom
  • boost
  • brace
  • breed
  • brew
  • bring up
  • broach
  • broadcast
  • build
  • build up
  • bump
  • buttress
  • call forth
  • carpenter
  • cause
  • celebrate
  • chime in
  • circulate
  • cite
  • cock
  • coin
  • collect
  • collection
  • combine
  • commend
  • commission
  • communicate
  • complement
  • compliment
  • compound
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • confect
  • congratulate
  • congregate
  • congress
  • constitute
  • construct
  • continuation
  • contrive
  • convey
  • cradle
  • crane
  • create
  • crop
  • cultivate
  • culture
  • debate
  • declare
  • decorate
  • describe
  • design
  • detonate
  • develop
  • devise
  • dignify
  • dilate
  • direct
  • discipline
  • disclose
  • discover
  • discuss
  • disseminate
  • distend
  • divulge
  • drag
  • drag up
  • draw out
  • dress
  • edify
  • educate
  • educe
  • elevate
  • elicit
  • elongate
  • encourage
  • energize
  • enflame
  • enhance
  • enlarge
  • enlighten
  • enliven
  • ennoble
  • enounce
  • enunciate
  • erect
  • escalate
  • establish
  • eulogize
  • evince
  • evoke
  • exaggerate
  • exalt
  • excite
  • expand
  • expansion
  • expose
  • expound
  • express
  • extend
  • extension
  • extol
  • extoll
  • extort
  • extract
  • fabricate
  • fashion
  • father
  • feed
  • ferment
  • fetch up
  • fire
  • follow up
  • foment
  • forgather
  • forge
  • form
  • forward
  • foster
  • found
  • frame
  • further
  • gain
  • galvanize
  • gather
  • gathering
  • generate
  • germinate
  • get
  • give
  • give air to
  • glean
  • glorify
  • goose
  • goose up
  • group
  • grow
  • guide
  • hail
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • harvest
  • heave
  • heft
  • heighten
  • hike
  • hike up
  • hoist
  • hold up
  • honor
  • hype
  • imagine
  • improve
  • inaugurate
  • incite
  • increase
  • increment
  • indoctrinate
  • inflame
  • inflate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • inspire
  • instigate
  • institute
  • instruct
  • intensify
  • interject
  • interrupt
  • introduce
  • invent
  • invigorate
  • jack up
  • jerry-build
  • jump
  • jump up
  • kick upstairs
  • kindle
  • knight
  • laud
  • lead
  • leg up
  • lengthen
  • lever
  • levy
  • lift
  • lift up
  • look
  • look up
  • magnify
  • make
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • mass
  • maximize
  • mention
  • mentor
  • mind
  • mobilize
  • mold
  • moot
  • more
  • mother
  • motivate
  • mount
  • move up
  • multiply
  • mushroom
  • muster
  • name
  • nourish
  • nurse
  • nurture
  • obtain
  • offer
  • organize
  • originate
  • parlay
  • perk up
  • pick
  • pick up
  • piece
  • pitch
  • place
  • place up
  • plant
  • plus
  • praise
  • prefabricate
  • prepare
  • proclaim
  • procure
  • produce
  • proliferation
  • prolong
  • promote
  • promotion
  • propagate
  • propose
  • protract
  • provide
  • provoke
  • pry
  • publish
  • pull
  • pull up
  • pump up
  • put across
  • put forth
  • put forward
  • put on its end
  • put over
  • put together
  • put up
  • pyramid
  • quicken
  • rally
  • reap
  • rear
  • reassemble
  • rebuild
  • reconstruct
  • recruit
  • redevelop
  • reedify
  • reenforce
  • reinforce
  • rendezvous
  • resurrect
  • retrofit
  • reveal
  • ripen
  • rise
  • root
  • rouse
  • run up
  • run-up
  • salute
  • say
  • school
  • secure
  • send through the roof
  • set
  • set in motion
  • set off
  • set on
  • set up
  • set upright
  • shape
  • shepherd
  • shoot up
  • shove
  • show
  • skyrocket
  • snowball
  • sound
  • sound off
  • sow
  • speak out
  • speak up
  • spike
  • sprout
  • stand up
  • state
  • step-up
  • stimulate
  • stir up
  • stoke
  • strengthen
  • stretch
  • submit
  • suckle
  • suggest
  • supersize
  • supplement
  • supply
  • support
  • swell
  • take up
  • teach
  • tend
  • throw up
  • train
  • trigger
  • tutor
  • uncloak
  • uncover
  • unite
  • unmask
  • unveil
  • up
  • upcast
  • upend
  • upgrade
  • upheave
  • uphold
  • uplift
  • upraise
  • uprear
  • uptick
  • uptrend
  • upturn
  • vent
  • ventilate
  • vitalize
  • voice
  • wangle
  • watch
  • wean
  • whip up
  • wrest
  • wring
  • write
  • write up

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