Synonyms for cause
Another word for cause is reason, grounds or drive. Below are 19 synonyms and 30 related words across 7 senses.
Also searched as: caused, causer, causes.
1. noun: events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
2. noun: a justification for something existing or happening
- reason synonyms
- grounds synonyms
3. noun: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- drive synonyms
- campaign synonyms
- movement synonyms
- effort synonyms
- crusade synonyms
4. noun: any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
- causal agent
- causal agency
5. noun: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
- case synonyms
- suit synonyms
- lawsuit
- causa
6. verb: give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- do synonyms
- make synonyms
7. verb: cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- have synonyms
- get synonyms
- make synonyms
- stimulate synonyms
- induce 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.
- factor synonyms
- origin synonyms
- producer
- inception
- origination
- etiology
- antecedent
- mutagenesis
- aetiology
- justification
- war
- lost cause
- political campaign synonyms
- anti-war movement
- ad campaign
- youth movement
- reform synonyms
- advertising campaign
- venture synonyms
- fund-raising drive
- fund-raising campaign
- fund-raising effort
- feminist movement
- charm campaign
- feminism
- being synonyms
- power synonyms
- first cause
- force synonyms
- cause of death
Cause in word games
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- Words With Friends
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- Unscramble CAUSE
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- Words starting with C
Questions people ask
What is another word for cause?
You can say reason, grounds, drive, campaign or movement instead of cause. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something".
What is the opposite of cause?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for cause; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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