CAUSE Related Words

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Hypernym

  • justification

    a statement in explanation of some action or belief

  • venture

    any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

  • physical entity

    an entity that has physical existence

  • proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings

    (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

  • make, create

    make or cause to be or to become

Derivation

  • causal

    involving or constituting a cause

  • cause, do, make

    give rise to

  • induce, stimulate, have, get

    cause to do

  • drive, aim

    move into a desired direction of discourse

  • tug, labor, labour, push

    strive and make an effort to reach a goal

  • repel, repulse, force back, push back, beat back

    cause to move back by force or influence

  • force, ram

    force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

  • crusade, fight, press, campaign, agitate

    exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person

  • action, sue, litigate, process

    institute legal proceedings against

  • causative

    producing an effect

  • causing, causation

    the act of causing something to happen

  • reason, grounds

    a justification for something existing or happening

  • causal agent, causal agency

    any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results

  • stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input

    any stimulating information or event

  • inductive, inducive

    inducing or influencing

  • incentive, inducement, motivator

    a positive motivational influence

  • trigger, induction, initiation

    an act that sets in motion some course of events

  • persuader, inducer

    someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on

  • inducing

    act of bringing about a desired result

Hyponym

  • advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz

    an organized program of advertisements

  • anti-war movement

    a campaign against entering or continuing a war

  • charm campaign

    a campaign of flattery and friendliness (by a company, politician, etc.) to become more popular and gain support

  • consumerism

    a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers

  • campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign

    the campaign of a candidate to be elected

  • fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort

    a campaign to raise money for some cause

  • feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib

    the movement aimed at equal rights for women

  • gay liberation movement, gay lib

    the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression

  • lost cause

    a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable

  • reform

    a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices

  • war

    a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious

  • youth movement, youth crusade

    political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people

  • person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul

    a human being

  • agent

    an active and efficient cause

  • nature

    a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe

  • supernatural, occult

    supernatural forces and events and beings collectively

  • theurgy

    the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs

  • first cause, prime mover, primum mobile

    an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause

  • destiny, fate

    the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)

  • catalyst

    something that causes an important event to happen

  • deus ex machina

    any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty

  • operator, manipulator

    an agent that operates some apparatus or machine

  • power, force

    one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

  • vital principle, life principle

    a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed

  • engine

    something used to achieve a purpose

  • cause of death, killer

    the causal agent resulting in death

  • danger

    a cause of pain or injury or loss

  • civil suit

    a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant

  • class action, class-action suit

    a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group

  • countersuit

    a suit brought against someone who has sued you

  • criminal suit

    a lawsuit alleging violations of criminal law by the defendant

  • moot

    a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise

  • paternity suit, bastardy proceeding

    a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined)

  • determine, shape, mold, influence, regulate

    shape or influence

  • initiate, pioneer

    take the lead or initiative in

  • effect, effectuate, set up

    produce

  • make

    compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way

  • occasion

    give occasion to

  • provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up

    evoke or provoke to appear or occur

  • engender, breed, spawn

    call forth

  • motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite

    give an incentive for action

  • impel

    urge or force (a person) to an action

  • facilitate

    increase the likelihood of (a response)

  • decide

    cause to decide

  • persuade

    cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action

  • bring

    induce or persuade

  • solicit

    incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination

  • encourage

    spur on

  • let

    actively cause something to happen

  • lead

    cause to undertake a certain action

  • inspire, instigate

    serve as the inciting cause of

  • suborn

    induce to commit perjury or give false testimony

  • compel, oblige, obligate

    force somebody to do something

Domain_topic

  • law, jurisprudence

    the collection of rules imposed by authority

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