Cause synonyms
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An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
basis (related)
A pattern or schedule for proceeding:
To cause to take place.
circumstance (related)
An act, condition, event, or fact connected with another act, condition, event, or fact either as an accessory or as a contributing or determining element.
causa finalis
The origin or source, thought of as the cause
Place or source of origin.
lead to
To be the cause of
An impelling force
The definition of causation means making something occur, or being the underlying reason why something happened.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
lie at the root of
To be the cause
event (related)
A social gathering or activity:
A difficult problem or question.
In Aristotelian philosophy, the first cause of all movement, itself unmoved
the why and wherefore
An underlying principle
To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of something, such as labor.
ultimate cause
An underlying principle
To arrange or agree to:
outcome (antonym)
Information, event, object or state of being produced as a result or consequence of a plan, process, accident, effort or other similar action or occurrence.
To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer.
result (antonym)
Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome.
development (antonym)
(Uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
consequence (antonym)
A logical result or conclusion; inference
end (antonym)
An outcome; result; upshot; consequence
fruit (antonym)
Result; outcome:
issue (antonym)
That which passes, flows, or is sent out; the whole quantity sent forth or emitted at one time; as, an issue of bank notes; the daily issue of a newspaper.
product (antonym)
(Chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
outgrowth (antonym)
A product of growing out; a projecting part or offshoot:
Antecedent means a person who was born before you in your family.
The principal spring in a clock, watch, or other mechanism; driving spring, whose steady uncoiling keeps the mechanism running
be at the bottom of
To be the cause
Some inner drive, impulse, intention, etc. that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way; incentive; goal
Something one intends to get or do; intention; aim
Something that explains, makes understandable.
In contract law, the material reason for undertaking certain obligations. In criminal law, motive or that which leads to the commission of a crime.
A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.
A disease or physical ailment:
The study of causes or origins.
Something perceptible by one or more of the senses, especially by vision or touch; a material thing.
To bring into being; esp., to create (something original); invent
To bring about deliberately; induce:
(Computers) To produce (a program) by instructing a computer to follow given parameters with a skeleton program.
To provide occasion for; cause:
To build or fuel (a fire).
To assist (an actor or reciter) by providing the next words of a forgotten passage; cue.
(Australian) To rest for a time from an activity.
give occasion to
To be the cause
To be the cause
sow the seeds of
To be the cause
origin (related)
That in which something has its beginning; source; root; cause
circumstances (related)
Plural form of circumstance
author (related)
The works of an author or authors.
doer (related)
A person who gets things done
belief (related)
(In the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
faith (related)
Unquestioning belief in God, religious tenets, etc.
begin (related)
The definition of begin means to start or come into being.
create (related)
To give rise to; produce:
aprioristic
A priori.
The definition of endogenous is coming from the inside.
Of or pertaining to an etiology.
Pertaining to the Evangelical school.
Originating or produced from outside a cell, tissue, or organism:
Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
From what is before. Deductive reasoning or the ascertaining of truth by proceeding from an assumption to its logical conclusion rather than by actual experience or observation. For example, one who walks by a store when its alarm is sounding and sees that its window is broken can deduce that a burglary has occurred without having watched the burglars commit the actual crime.
casus-belli
An event provoking war or used as a pretext for making war
The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
(Linear algebra) The unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value of 1 for the unit matrix. Abbreviation: det
The philosophical doctrine that every state of affairs, including every human event, act, and decision, is the inevitable consequence of antecedent states of affairs.
The original or main source of anything
A female given name of American usage since the 1980s.
A person or thing from which something comes into being or is derived or obtained:
The fact or quality, attributed to natural processes, of being directed toward a definite end or of having an ultimate purpose
The definition of aim means to point or direct or to try with a particular goal in mind.
To pay a (social) visit.
(Slang) To examine carefully, as in planning a crime:
(Law) To transmit or give (real property) by will.
To cause disease in; infect or derange
To bring about; produce as a result; cause; accomplish
To effectuate is to make something happen.
To contain; include
To urge on, spur on, or incite to some action, esp. to some evil
To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
To bear, yield, create, manufacture, etc. something
To help bring about or further the growth or establishment of
To be appropriate or apt for.
An area of land designated for a particular purpose:
Desire or enthusiasm to accomplish or achieve something
Elasticity; resilience:
(Law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
A vigorous, concerted action for some cause or idea, or against some abuse
The state or process of acting or doing:
A step in proceeding; occasion or case
The definition of bring means to carry or to cause to happen.
To be the cause of
To make secure (in all the above senses).
To put (oneself, one's limbs, etc.) into motion or activity, esp. briskly
To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone)
why-and-wherefore
bring to pass (or effect)
start (related)
An act of beginning; an initial effort:
law (related)
An impromptu or extralegal system of justice substituted for established judicial procedure:
causal agent
any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
causal agency
any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
A series of military operations undertaken to achieve a large-scale objective during a war:
Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.
The organization consisting of those active in this way
A difficult exertion of strength or will:
To invigorate or seem to invigorate, as by an alcoholic drink
To be obliged to; must:
Bible, 2 Cor. viii. 1
What a thing is made of; constituent substance or material
A small part of the whole.
The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; especially to evil or wickedness.
A foundation is defined as an organization set up to finance or complete projects, usually for a non-profit organization such as a school or a church.
The reason; cause
The first part:
The immediate moving force
subject of dispute
The immediate moving force
(--- Law) A judicial decision that is binding on other equal or lower courts in the same jurisdiction as to its conclusion on a point of law, and may also be persuasive to courts in other jurisdictions, in subsequent cases involving sufficiently similar facts.
Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances:
The definition of a fault is a weakness in the rock strata that can shift and create an earthquake.
straw that breaks the camel's back
The immediate moving force
Someone who originates, creates or founds something.
Plural form of principle
The definition of a creed is a belief, particularly a religious one.
A material object that physically exists.
To produce offspring.
plan (related)
A program or policy stipulating a service or benefit:
Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
apriority
(Philosophy) The quality or state of being known a priori
Something that stimulates one to take action, work harder, etc.; stimulus
To be of interest or importance to:
To espouse means to get married.
To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation.
Something, such as a fact or circumstance, that justifies:
caused-by (related)
aggravate (related)
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Synonym Study
- A determinant is a cause that helps to determine the character of an effect or result ambition was a determinant in his success
- An antecedent is an event or thing that is the predecessor of, and is usually to some extent responsible for, a later event or thing war always has its antecedents
- A motive is an impulse, emotion, or desire that leads to action the motive for a crime
- Reason implies the mental activity of a rational being in explaining or justifying some act or thought she had a reason for laughing
- Cause refers to a situation, event, or agent that produces an effect or result carelessness is often a cause of accidents
Find another word for cause. In this page you can discover 171 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for cause, like: reason, basis, bring about, give-rise-to, circumstance, causa finalis, provenance, lead to, motive-power, causation and agent.