Synonyms for nay
neɪnay

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1. nayadverb

   a negative

   "the nays have it"

   Antonyms:
   yea

2. nayadverb

   not this merely but also; not only so but

   "each of us is peculiar, nay, in a sense unique"

   Antonyms:
   yea

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1. nayadjective

   Synonyms:
   no

2. nayadjective

   Synonyms:
   not only so, but more; not this only, but also

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1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:

   Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

2. Feltham:

   There is nothing more operative than sedulity and diligence. A man would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees and gentle augmentations. Diligence and moderation are the best steps whereby to climb to any excellence, nay, it is rare that there is any other other way.

3. Charles Darwin:

   We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

4. Henry David Thoreau:

   Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

5. Epictetus, Discourses:

   When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?