Synonyms for issue
Another word for issue is number, matter or subject. Below are 32 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: issued, issues.
1. noun: an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
2. noun: one of a series published periodically
3. noun: some situation or event that is thought about
- matter synonyms
- subject synonyms
- topic synonyms
4. noun: the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
- issuing
- issuance
5. noun: supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
- government issue
- military issue
6. noun: the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- take synonyms
- return synonyms
- yield synonyms
- proceeds synonyms
- payoff synonyms
- takings
7. noun: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- event synonyms
- result synonyms
- effect synonyms
- outcome synonyms
- consequence synonyms
- upshot
8. noun: the immediate descendants of a person
- offspring synonyms
- progeny
9. noun: the becoming visible
- emergence synonyms
- egress
10. noun: an opening that permits escape or release
- way out synonyms
- exit synonyms
- outlet synonyms
11. noun: the act of issuing printed materials
- publication
12. verb: prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- put out synonyms
- bring out synonyms
- release synonyms
- publish 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.
- content synonyms
- hot-button issue
- mental object
- bread-and-butter issue
- cognitive content
- gut issue
- paramount issue
- pocketbook issue
- quodlibet
- edition synonyms
- periodical synonyms
- area synonyms
- blind spot
- remit synonyms
- res judicata
- res adjudicata
- supply synonyms
- stock issue
- provision synonyms
- supplying
- store synonyms
- stock synonyms
- fund synonyms
- income
- rent synonyms
- economic rent
- payback
- change synonyms
- response synonyms
- product synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for issue?
You can say number, matter, subject, topic or issuing instead of issue. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "an important question that is in dispute and must be settled".
What is the opposite of issue?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for issue; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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