Synonyms for care
Another word for care is attention, aid or tending. Below are 20 synonyms and 30 related words across 11 senses.
1. noun: the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- attention synonyms
- aid synonyms
- tending synonyms
2. noun: judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
- caution synonyms
- precaution synonyms
- forethought
3. noun: an anxious feeling
- fear synonyms
- concern synonyms
4. noun: a cause for feeling concern
5. noun: attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- charge synonyms
- guardianship
- tutelage
6. noun: activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- maintenance synonyms
- upkeep synonyms
7. verb: feel concern or interest
8. verb: provide care for
- give care
9. verb: to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something
- like synonyms
- wish synonyms
10. verb: be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- deal synonyms
- handle synonyms
- manage synonyms
11. verb: be concerned with
- worry synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- work synonyms
- health care
- personal care
- treatment synonyms
- hair care
- skin care
- first aid
- baby sitting
- healthcare
- tree surgery
- nursing
- pet sitting
- intervention synonyms
- faith cure
- faith healing
- judiciousness
- anxiety
- plight synonyms
- predicament
- quandary
- great care
- due care
- protection synonyms
- reasonable care
- ordinary care
- foster care
- slight care
- providence
- service synonyms
- car care
Care in word games
- Letters
- 4
- Scrabble
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
- How common
- Everyday word
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Questions people ask
What is another word for care?
You can say attention, aid, tending, caution or precaution instead of care. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something".
What is the opposite of care?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for care; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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