calling

The word “calling” has 2 syllables: call-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈkɔːlɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for calling?

In the thesaurus, “calling” has 297 synonyms and 61 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for calling

abandoning
abandonment
abolishment
abolition
aborting
abortion
abrogating
accounting
alerting
amassing
announcing
annulling
annulment
anticipating
appointment
art
asking
assembling
assignment
auguring
baptising
baptizing
bawling
baying
beckoning
beeping
believing
bellowing
berth
bidding
billet
boding
branding
breaking off
business
buzzing
calculating
call
calling for
calling in
calling off
calling out
calling up
cancelation
canceling
cancellation
cancelling
career
caterwauling
cautioning
christening
citing
cleping
code-naming
cold-calling
collecting
coming by
coming over
commanding
conceiving
concluding
conjecturing
considering
convening
convoking
countermanding
counting
craft
crowing
crying
crying off
day gig
declaring
decreeing
deducing
deeming
demanding
denominating
denoting
designating
dialing
dialling
dictating
directing
discontinuing
divining
do
dodge
dropping
dropping by
dropping in
dubbing
duty
employment
ending
engagement
enterprise
entitling
esteeming
estimating
extrapolating
fancying
feeling
field
figuring
forboding
foreboding
forecasting
foreknowing
foreseeing
foretelling
forewarning
frequenting
function
gaging
game
gathering
gauging
gig
giving up
go
grouping
guessing
hailing
hallooing
halting
handcraft
handicraft
hang
haunting
heralding
holding
holding back
hollering
holloing
howling
imagining
inferring
interrupting
invalidating
invalidation
inviting
invoking
job
judging
knelling
labeling
labelling
lay
lifework
line
livelihood
living
load
looking up
making
mandating
metier
miscalling
misnaming
mission
mistitling
mustering
naming
neutralization
nicknaming
nine-to-five
nominating
nullification
nullifying
occupation
office
ordaining
ordering
paging
petitioning
phoning
place
placing
play
portending
position
post
predicting
presaging
proclaiming
profession
prognosticating
promising
prophesying
province
pursuit
putting
racket
rallying
rat race
rating
reading
reasoning
reassembling
recall
recalling
recanting
rechristening
recision
reckoning
reconvening
regarding
relabeling
relabelling
relinquishing
relinquishment
renaming
repeal
repealing
requesting
requiring
requisitioning
rescinding
rescission
retracting
reversal
reversing
revocation
revoking
ringing
roaring
rollback
rolling back
rounding up
running in
scrapping
screaming
screeching
scrubbing
seeing
sending for
sensing
setting down
shouting
shrieking
shrilling
singing
situation
slot
sounding off
speaking out
speaking up
specifying
squeaking
squealing
stepping in
stigmatizing
stopping
styling
subpoenaing
summoning
supposing
surnaming
surrender
surrendering
suspending
swindle
tagging
taking back
taking for
task
telephoning
terminating
termination
terming
thinking
thundering
titling
trade
ululating
understanding
vaticinating
viewing
visiting
vocation
vociferating
voidance
voiding
wailing
walk of life
warning
whistling
whooping
withdrawing
work
workload
writing off
yauping
yawping
yelling
yowling

Antonyms for calling

amusement
avocation
banishing
beginning
breaking up
breathing
calibrating
canceling
cancelling
casting out
commencement
commencing
computing
continuation
continuing
countermanding
describing
dismissing
dissolving
ejecting
engagement
engaging
entertainment
expelling
fun
hobby
initiating
initiation
keeping
kicking out
measuring
mumbling
murmuring
muttering
narrating
ousting
outing
pastime
pledging
promising
pursuit
reciting
recounting
recreation
relating
reporting
rescinding
routing
running off
scaling
starting
surrender
taking on
taking up
telling
throwing out
turning away
undertaking
unemployment
whispering
working out

Meanings of calling

verb
1. (heading) To use one's voice.
2. (heading) To visit.
3. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
4. (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
5. (sometimes with for) To require, demand.
6. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
7. To demand repayment of a loan.
8. To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
noun
1. A strong urge to become religious.
2. A job or occupation.

Example Sentences

Calling all volunteers! We need your help for the community clean-up event this Saturday.
She felt a strong calling to pursue a career in medicine from a young age.
The teacher recognized his calling to educate and inspire young minds.
Despite the challenges, he remained steadfast in his calling to serve his country as a firefighter.
With each brushstroke, the artist found fulfillment in answering her creative calling.

On this page you'll find 358 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to calling, such as: abandoning, abandonment, abolishment, abolition, aborting, abortion, abrogating.

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