cause - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results

Synonyms

• causal agency
• causal agent
• cause

More generic

• physical entity

More specific

• agent
• catalyst
• cause of death
• danger
• destiny
• deus ex machina
• engine
• fate
• first cause
• force
• individual
• killer
• life principle
• manipulator
• mortal
• nature
• occult
• operator
• person
• power
• prime mover
• primum mobile
• somebody
• someone
• soul
• supernatural
• theurgy
• vital principle

Noun

a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

Synonyms

• campaign
• cause
• crusade
• drive
• effort
• movement

More generic

• venture

More specific

• ad blitz
• ad campaign
• advertising campaign
• anti-war movement
• campaigning
• candidacy
• candidature
• charm campaign
• consumerism
• electioneering
• feminism
• feminist movement
• fund-raising campaign
• fund-raising drive
• fund-raising effort
• gay lib
• gay liberation movement
• lost cause
• political campaign
• reform
• war
• women's lib
• women's liberation movement
• youth crusade
• youth movement

Noun

a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy

Synonyms

• case
• causa
• cause
• lawsuit
• suit

More generic

• legal proceeding
• proceeding
• proceedings

More specific

• bastardy proceeding
• civil suit
• class action
• class-action suit
• countersuit
• criminal suit
• moot
• paternity suit

Noun

a justification for something existing or happening

Synonyms

• cause
• grounds
• reason

More generic

• justification

Noun

events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something

Synonyms

• cause

More generic

• inception
• origin
• origination

More specific

• aetiology
• antecedent
• etiology
• factor
• mutagenesis
• producer

Verb

cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

Synonyms

• cause
• get
• have
• induce
• make
• stimulate

More specific

• bring
• compel
• decide
• encourage
• inspire
• instigate
• lead
• let
• obligate
• oblige
• persuade
• prompt
• solicit
• suborn

Verb

give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally

Synonyms

• cause
• do
• make

More generic

• create
• make

More specific

• actuate
• breed
• call forth
• determine
• effect
• effectuate
• engender
• evoke
• facilitate
• force
• impel
• incite
• influence
• initiate
• kick up
• make
• mold
• motivate
• move
• occasion
• pioneer
• prompt
• propel
• provoke
• regulate
• set up
• shape
• spawn

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