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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateur, not trained in a religious or other profession |
| Synonyms: | inexpert, nonclerical, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, ordinary, secular, temporal, unsacred |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | ordained, professional |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce, advance |
| Synonyms: | adduce, allege, bear, bring forth, bring forward, cite, deposit, generate, lodge, offer, present, put forward, submit, yield |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | credit, allocate |
| Synonyms: | accredit, address, aim, allot, apply, ascribe, assess, assign, attribute, burden, cast, charge, direct, encumber, impose, impute, incline, level, point, refer, saddle, tax, train, turn, zero in |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | design, plan |
| Synonyms: | concoct, contrive, devise, hatch, plot, prepare, work out |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | neglect |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make smooth |
| Synonyms: | allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, calm, even, flatten, flush, iron, level, plane, press, quiet, relieve, steam, still, suppress |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | rough |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bet, wager |
| Synonyms: | gamble, game, give odds, hazard, play, risk, stake |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an untruth |
| Synonyms: | BS, be untruthful, bear false witness, beguile, break promise, bull*, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe*, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, go back on, invent, make believe, malign, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresent, misspeak, misstate, overdraw, palter, perjure, pervert, phony, plant*, prevaricate, promote, put on*, put up a front, snow*, soft-soap, string along, victimize |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be prostrate, flat |
| Synonyms: | be prone, be recumbent, be supine, couch, go to bed, laze, lie down, loll, lounge, nap, recline, repose, rest, retire, siesta, sleep, sprawl, stretch out, turn in |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | be upright, stand, straighten |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be situated |
| Synonyms: | be, be beside, be buried, be established, be even, be fixed, be found, be interred, be level, be located, be on, be placed, be seated, be smooth, belong, beset, exist, extend, have its seat in, occupy, prevail, reach, remain, spread, stretch |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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