Synonyms for layman
ˈleɪ mənlay·man

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1. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   specialist, expert, professional

2. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   professional, specialist, expert

3. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   expert, professional, specialist

4. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   expert, specialist, professional

5. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   professional, specialist, expert

6. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   professional, expert, specialist

7. laymannoun

   Antonyms:
   expert, professional, specialist

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1. layman, layperson, secularnoun

   someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

   Synonyms:
   secular, layperson

   Antonyms:
   man of the cloth, clergyman, reverend

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1. List of paraphrases for "layman":

   layperson, secular

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1. Kai Tarkianen:

   ( It's) a layman's sport, anybody with a license can come up.

2. Colin Hanks:

   There's much bigger issues here and we wanted to be able to discuss those and explain it in a way that any layman could understand, that it could be entertaining but also informative.

3. Anonymous:

   The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman.

4. Janice Chou:

   You get clear feedback in layman's terms and insight into the nutritional value of what you're eating. The information you receive from MyFitnessPal is great— they present your caloric breakdown in an easy-to-understand pie chart— but you don't always understand what it all means.

5. Sigmund Freud:

   The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.