Contributing Synonyms and Antonyms

Tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. helpful
  2. contributory
  3. conducive
  4. aiding
  5. supporting
  6. sharing
  7. causative
  8. providing a background
  9. forming a part of
  10. not to be overlooked
  11. to be considered
  12. entering in
  13. auxiliary
  14. ancillary
  15. coming into the picture
  16. contributive
  17. tributary
To have a share, as in an act or result; have a hand in
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sharing
  2. participating
  3. partaking
  4. conducing
Contribute to some cause
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. giving
  2. bestowing
Antonyms:
  1. counteracting
  2. shunning
  3. withholding
  4. disapproving
  5. neglecting

Words Related to Contributing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. relevant
  2. secondary
  3. starting
  4. pre-disposing
  5. decay-accelerating
  6. offering

Contributing Sentence Examples

  • She wasn't contributing money, but she was certainly contributing her share.

  • Accused, among other things, of contributing to the elevation of the empress Anne by his cabals and of suppressing a supposed will of Catherine I.

  • In the meantime, besides contributing regularly, first to the Saturday Review and then to the Spectator, and editing the National Review, he wrote the first volume of The Early and Middle Ages of England (1861).

  • This war seriously interfered with the French plans of trade development and exploitation, and by rendering difficult the maintenance of a chain of settlements which might have connected Canada and Louisiana was a contributing cause of the final overthrow of French dominion.

  • Another Reform Bill, memorable for driving certain good Liberals into a Cave of Adullam, broke up the new government in a few months; Disraeli contributing to the result by the delivery of opinions not new to him and of lasting worth, though presently to be subordinated to arguments of an inferior order and much less characteristic. "At this rate," he said in 1866,"you will have a parliament that will entirely lose its command over the executive, and it will meet with less consideration and possess less influence."

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