call on

The phrase “call on” has 2 syllables: call on

It's pronounced as /ˈkɔːl ɒn/


What is synonym and antonym for call on?

In the thesaurus, “call on” has 207 synonyms and 81 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for call on along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for call on

  • abjure
  • abnegate
  • adjure
  • appoint
  • ask
  • ask alms
  • authorize
  • ban
  • bank on
  • bar
  • beckon
  • beg
  • begrudge
  • benefit
  • beseech
  • besiege
  • bid
  • bite
  • bludge
  • brace
  • bum
  • burn
  • buzz
  • cadge
  • calculate
  • call
  • call for
  • call the signals
  • call upon
  • charge
  • chat
  • check
  • chisel
  • cite
  • claim
  • clamor for
  • coerce
  • come around
  • come by
  • command
  • commit
  • compel
  • confide
  • conjure
  • contradict
  • contravene
  • controvert
  • converse
  • count
  • crash
  • curb
  • debar
  • demand
  • depend
  • desire
  • dictate
  • dime up
  • direct
  • disacknowledge
  • disallow
  • disavow
  • disbelieve
  • discard
  • disclaim
  • discredit
  • disown
  • disprove
  • doubt
  • drop by
  • drop in
  • drop over
  • dwell
  • enact
  • enjoin
  • enjoin from
  • entreat
  • entrust
  • eschew
  • exact
  • exclude
  • figure on
  • forbid
  • force
  • force upon
  • forgo
  • forsake
  • freeload
  • frequent
  • gainsay
  • give directions
  • give orders
  • go over to
  • go to see
  • grant
  • hit
  • hit up
  • hold back
  • hustle
  • impetrate
  • implore
  • importune
  • impose
  • inflict
  • inhibit
  • insist
  • inspect
  • instruct
  • interdict
  • intrust
  • invite
  • invoke
  • keep back
  • knock
  • lay down the law
  • lean
  • live hand to mouth
  • look around
  • look in on
  • look to
  • look up
  • mark out
  • mendicate
  • mooch
  • negate
  • negative
  • nick
  • nickel up
  • not buy
  • nullify
  • oblige
  • oppose
  • ordain
  • order
  • ordinate
  • panhandle
  • pass the hat
  • pay a call
  • pay a visit to
  • petition
  • play
  • pop in
  • pray
  • press
  • proclaim
  • prohibit
  • put foot down
  • put the bite on
  • put the touch on
  • rebuff
  • rebut
  • recant
  • reckon
  • refuse
  • refute
  • reject
  • rely
  • repudiate
  • request
  • require
  • requisition
  • reside
  • restrain
  • revoke
  • rule out
  • sacrifice
  • say no to
  • score
  • scrounge
  • see
  • send for
  • set
  • sojourn
  • solicit
  • solicit charity
  • sponge
  • sponge on
  • spurn
  • stand on
  • stay at
  • stay with
  • step in
  • stop by
  • stop off
  • subpoena
  • sue
  • summon
  • supplicate
  • swing by
  • taboo
  • take charge
  • take exception to
  • take in
  • take the lead
  • talk
  • tap
  • tarry
  • task
  • tell
  • touch
  • tour
  • trust
  • turn down
  • turn thumbs down
  • veto
  • want
  • warn
  • withhold

Antonyms for call on

  • OK
  • accede
  • accept
  • acknowledge
  • admit
  • affirm
  • agree
  • aid
  • allow
  • appease
  • approve
  • ask
  • assist
  • be quiet
  • believe
  • cancel
  • claim
  • coerce
  • comfort
  • compel
  • conceal
  • concede
  • conciliate
  • concur
  • confess
  • console
  • constrain
  • content
  • contradict
  • corroborate
  • countermand
  • credit
  • disallow
  • distrust
  • embrace
  • follow
  • force
  • free
  • give
  • go along
  • grant
  • gratify
  • help
  • hinder
  • hint
  • ignore
  • imply
  • intimate
  • keep
  • liberate
  • listen
  • mistrust
  • mollify
  • neglect
  • oblige
  • oppose
  • pacify
  • permit
  • placate
  • please
  • prevent
  • question
  • quiet
  • ratify
  • recall
  • refrain
  • refuse
  • reject
  • require
  • reverse
  • revoke
  • sanction
  • satisfy
  • stop
  • suggest
  • support
  • suspect
  • trust
  • validate
  • veto
  • welcome

Meanings of call on

  • verb
    1. To visit (a person); to pay a call to.
    2. To select (a student in a classroom, etc.) to provide an answer.
    3. (also call upon) To request or ask something of (a person); to select for a task.
    4. (also call upon) To have recourse to.
    5. To correct; to point out an error or untruth.

Example Sentences

  • The teacher decided to call on Sarah to answer the math question.
  • During the meeting, the chairperson will call on each member to share their thoughts.
  • In times of crisis, we often call on our friends and family for support.
  • The president will call on Congress to pass new legislation to address the issue.
  • It's important to call on experts for advice when faced with complex problems.

On this page you'll find 288 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to call on, such as: OK, abjure, abnegate, accede, accept, acknowledge, adjure.

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  • accomplish
  • account
  • achieve
  • add
  • add up
  • adjust
  • aim
  • allow
  • anticipate
  • appraise
  • arrange
  • aspire
  • assay
  • assess
  • assume
  • attempt
  • average
  • bank on
  • blueprint
  • budget
  • build
  • calibrate
  • call
  • call on
  • call upon
  • cast
  • chart
  • choreograph
  • cipher
  • commit
  • compute
  • concert
  • conclude
  • confide
  • conjecture
  • consider
  • conspire
  • contemplate
  • contrive
  • count
  • count on
  • debate
  • deduce
  • deduct
  • depend
  • depend on
  • design
  • determine
  • devise
  • divide
  • dope out
  • draft
  • dream
  • effect
  • endeavor
  • entrust
  • enumerate
  • estimate
  • evaluate
  • execute
  • extrapolate
  • figure
  • figure in
  • figure on
  • figure out
  • forecast
  • foretell
  • frame
  • gage
  • gather
  • gauge
  • get up
  • go
  • guess
  • have on
  • hope
  • infer
  • intend
  • intrigue
  • intrust
  • itemize
  • judge
  • keep tabs
  • lay out
  • lean
  • look
  • look to
  • machinate
  • make
  • mean
  • measure
  • meditate
  • multiply
  • number
  • organize
  • outline
  • perform
  • place
  • plan
  • plot
  • ponder
  • premeditate
  • prepare
  • project
  • propose
  • purport
  • purpose
  • put
  • put up
  • rate
  • reason
  • recalculate
  • reckon
  • recompute
  • refigure
  • rely
  • rely on
  • scale
  • scheme
  • shape
  • size up
  • sketch
  • stand on
  • strive
  • struggle
  • subtract
  • sum
  • suppose
  • take account of
  • tally
  • think likely
  • tot
  • total
  • totalize
  • tote up
  • trust
  • try
  • understand
  • value
  • weigh
  • wish
  • work out

take to task

  • abase
  • abuse
  • accuse
  • adjudicate
  • admonish
  • afflict
  • animadvert
  • arraign
  • asperse
  • assail
  • attack
  • backbite
  • bad-mouth
  • baste
  • bawl out
  • beef
  • belittle
  • bellyache
  • berate
  • bitch
  • blacklist
  • blame
  • blast
  • boycott
  • brand
  • call down
  • call on the carpet
  • call to task
  • carp
  • carp at
  • carp on
  • castigate
  • cavil
  • censure
  • charge
  • charge with
  • chasten
  • chastise
  • chew out
  • chide
  • climb all over
  • clobber
  • come down on
  • complain
  • condemn
  • contemn
  • cow
  • crab
  • criticize
  • croak
  • crucify
  • curb
  • cut up
  • damn
  • declaim
  • decry
  • defame
  • denigrate
  • denounce
  • denunciate
  • deprecate
  • deride
  • derogate
  • dis
  • disapprove
  • discipline
  • discommend
  • discredit
  • disparage
  • dispraise
  • diss
  • dress down
  • drub
  • excoriate
  • expose
  • expostulate
  • exprobate
  • fault
  • find fault with
  • finger
  • flay
  • fry
  • fulminate against
  • fuss
  • get after
  • gibbet
  • give a talking-to
  • give comeuppance
  • give the devil
  • give the dickens
  • give tongue-lashing
  • go after
  • gripe
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • hammer
  • hang something on
  • harangue
  • have on the carpet
  • have words
  • humble
  • impeach
  • implicate
  • impugn
  • incriminate
  • indict
  • inveigh against
  • jaw
  • jawbone
  • judge
  • jump on
  • keelhaul
  • keep aft
  • kick
  • knock
  • kvetch
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lay down the law
  • lay into
  • lay on
  • lean on
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • light into
  • look askance
  • lower the boom
  • moan
  • mock
  • monish
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • niggle
  • objurate
  • objurgate
  • oppose
  • ostracize
  • pan
  • pay
  • penalize
  • pick apart
  • pillory
  • preach
  • proscribe
  • prosecute
  • pull apart
  • punish
  • put down
  • quibble
  • rag
  • rail
  • rake
  • rake over the coals
  • rap
  • rat
  • rate
  • read
  • read out
  • read the riot act
  • ream
  • rebuff
  • rebuke
  • recriminate
  • remonstrate
  • reprehend
  • repress
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reprobate
  • reprove
  • restrain
  • revile
  • ridicule
  • rip
  • rip into
  • scoff
  • scold
  • score
  • scorn
  • scourge
  • show up
  • sit on
  • skewer
  • skin
  • slag
  • slam
  • slash
  • smear
  • soften
  • sound off
  • stigmatize
  • subdue
  • tame
  • taunt
  • tear apart
  • tell off
  • threaten
  • tick off
  • tongue-lash
  • trim
  • try
  • tweak
  • upbraid
  • vilify
  • vituperate
  • whine
  • yell at
  • zap

rebuke

  • abuse
  • admonish
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • affliction
  • assail
  • attack
  • bad-mouth
  • baste
  • bawl out
  • bawling-out
  • belittle
  • belittlement
  • berate
  • berating
  • blame
  • blast
  • bring to account
  • business
  • call down
  • call on the carpet
  • call to account
  • carp on
  • castigate
  • castigation
  • censure
  • chastise
  • chastisement
  • chew out
  • chewing-out
  • chide
  • chiding
  • climb all over
  • comeuppance
  • commination
  • condemn
  • condemnation
  • correction
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • crucify
  • cut up
  • damnation
  • denounce
  • denunciation
  • deprecate
  • deprecation
  • depreciate
  • depreciation
  • deride
  • devil
  • dis
  • disapproval
  • disparage
  • disparagement
  • diss
  • dress down
  • dressing-down
  • earful
  • excoriate
  • excoriation
  • expostulation
  • fault
  • flay
  • fry
  • get after
  • get on
  • gibbet
  • give a talking-to
  • go after
  • going-over
  • hammer
  • harangue
  • hard time
  • jaw
  • jawbone
  • jump on
  • keelhaul
  • kick in the teeth
  • knock
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lash
  • lay into
  • lean on
  • lecture
  • lesson
  • minimize
  • mock
  • monish
  • objurgate
  • objurgation
  • oppose
  • ostracism
  • pan
  • pay
  • punish
  • punishment
  • put down
  • rag
  • rake
  • rap
  • rate
  • rating
  • read
  • rebuff
  • refusal
  • remonstrance
  • reprehend
  • reprehension
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reproof
  • reproval
  • reprove
  • repulse
  • revile
  • ridicule
  • riot act
  • rip
  • row
  • scoff
  • scold
  • scolding
  • score
  • scorn
  • scourge
  • sit on
  • slam
  • slap in the face
  • snub
  • sound off
  • stricture
  • take to task
  • talking-to
  • tear apart
  • tell off
  • telling-off
  • tick off
  • tongue-lash
  • tongue-lashing
  • upbraid
  • upbraiding
  • vituperate
  • zap

bank on

  • assume
  • be sure about
  • believe in
  • bet on
  • build on
  • calculate
  • call on
  • call upon
  • commit
  • confide
  • count
  • count on
  • depend
  • entrust
  • figure on
  • gamble on
  • intrust
  • lean
  • lean on
  • look to
  • reckon
  • reckon on
  • rely
  • rely on
  • stake
  • stand on
  • trust
  • venture
  • wager

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