calling for

The phrase “calling for” has 3 syllables: call-ing for

It's pronounced as /ˈkɔːlɪŋ fɔːr/


What is synonym and antonym for calling for?

In the thesaurus, “calling for” has 56 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for calling for

  • asking
  • badgering
  • bearing
  • begging
  • bespeaking
  • calling
  • challenging
  • chartering
  • claiming
  • commanding
  • commissioning
  • compelling
  • decreeing
  • demanding
  • desiring
  • dictating
  • dire
  • directing
  • dunning
  • enjoining
  • entailing
  • exacting
  • forcing
  • harassing
  • hiring
  • hounding
  • immediate
  • importuning
  • imposing
  • insisting
  • inviting
  • invoking
  • involving
  • lacking
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • mandating
  • necessitating
  • needing
  • ordaining
  • ordering
  • petitioning
  • pressing
  • questing
  • requesting
  • requiring
  • requisitioning
  • seeking
  • soliciting
  • stipulating
  • taking
  • urgent
  • urging
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • wishing

Antonyms for calling for

Example Sentences

  • The protesters were calling for justice in the streets, demanding accountability for recent injustices.
  • The CEO's speech was calling for innovation and creativity among the company's employees.
  • The weather forecast is calling for heavy rain and strong winds tomorrow, so be sure to prepare accordingly.
  • The opposition party is calling for a parliamentary debate on the proposed legislation.
  • The teacher was calling for volunteers to help organize the school's charity event.

On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to calling for, such as: asking, badgering, bearing, begging, bespeaking, calling, canceling.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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
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  • day gig
  • declaring
  • decreeing
  • deducing
  • deeming
  • demanding
  • denominating
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  • dialing
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  • dictating
  • directing
  • discontinuing
  • divining
  • do
  • dodge
  • dropping
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  • dropping in
  • dubbing
  • duty
  • employment
  • ending
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • entitling
  • esteeming
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  • extrapolating
  • fancying
  • feeling
  • field
  • figuring
  • forboding
  • foreboding
  • forecasting
  • foreknowing
  • foreseeing
  • foretelling
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  • 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
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  • mustering
  • naming
  • neutralization
  • nicknaming
  • nine-to-five
  • nominating
  • nullification
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  • occupation
  • office
  • ordaining
  • ordering
  • paging
  • petitioning
  • phoning
  • place
  • placing
  • play
  • portending
  • position
  • post
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  • presaging
  • proclaiming
  • profession
  • prognosticating
  • promising
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  • 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

necessitating

needing

  • asking
  • bearing
  • begging
  • calling for
  • challenging
  • claiming
  • coming up short
  • commanding
  • defective
  • deficient
  • demanding
  • deprived of
  • desirous
  • enjoining
  • entailing
  • exacting
  • exiguous
  • failing
  • flawed
  • impaired
  • inadequate
  • incomplete
  • insisting
  • involving
  • lacking
  • limited
  • low on
  • meager
  • minus
  • missing
  • necessitating
  • needed
  • not hacking it
  • not making it
  • poor
  • pressing
  • questing
  • requiring
  • sans
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • short
  • short-handed
  • shy
  • skimpy
  • slender
  • slim
  • sparse
  • stipulating
  • taking
  • tight
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • without

taking

  • Junoesque
  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • accommodating
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acting
  • addressing
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adorable
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • affecting
  • agreeable
  • allowing
  • alluring
  • annihilating
  • appealing
  • appointing
  • arresting
  • asking
  • assassinating
  • assuming
  • attractive
  • bearing
  • beating
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • beckoning
  • begging
  • behaving
  • believing
  • besting
  • bettering
  • bewitching
  • bidding
  • biding
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • blowing out
  • bombing
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • breaking
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • bumping off
  • burying
  • butchering
  • buying
  • calling for
  • capitulating
  • capping
  • captivating
  • carrying
  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • catching
  • challenging
  • charming
  • cherry-picking
  • chocolate-box
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • clasping
  • clenching
  • clobbering
  • clutching
  • comely
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • communicative
  • concluding
  • confirming
  • conquering
  • contagious
  • containing
  • contracting
  • controlling
  • copping
  • countenancing
  • creaming
  • crediting
  • croaking
  • crushing
  • culling
  • cunning
  • cute
  • cutting down
  • dainty
  • decimating
  • deducing
  • defeating
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demanding
  • designating
  • desirable
  • destroying
  • directing
  • dishy
  • dispatching
  • doing away with
  • doing down
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • dollish
  • drop-dead
  • drubbing
  • eclipsing
  • electing
  • elegant
  • embracing
  • enchanting
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enduring
  • enfolding
  • engaging
  • engineering
  • enjoining
  • entailing
  • entering
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  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • espousing
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • executing
  • expansive
  • exquisite
  • eye-catching
  • failing
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • felling
  • fellowshiping
  • fellowshipping
  • fetching
  • fielding
  • financing
  • finessing
  • finishing
  • fitting
  • fixing
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flattening
  • flawless
  • flourishing
  • foxy
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • getting
  • getting around
  • getting off
  • getting the better of
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • going
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • grasping
  • gripping
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • handling
  • handpicking
  • handsome
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • having
  • having a grip on
  • holding
  • hot
  • housing
  • hunky
  • icing
  • inclosing
  • infectious
  • inferring
  • influencing
  • insisting
  • interesting
  • inviting
  • involving
  • jockeying
  • killing
  • killing off
  • knocking for a loop
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • knockout
  • lacking
  • languishing
  • laying hold of
  • licking
  • likely
  • living with
  • looker
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luring
  • luscious
  • magnetic
  • magnificent
  • making away with
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • marking
  • martyring
  • massacring
  • mastering
  • meeting
  • mesmeric
  • micromanaging
  • mowing
  • murdering
  • nabbing
  • naming
  • necessitating
  • needing
  • negotiating
  • neutralizing
  • nominating
  • nosing out
  • nubile
  • obtaining
  • offering
  • offing
  • okaying
  • operating
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • pandemic
  • panning out
  • perfect
  • performing
  • permitting
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • picking
  • picking up
  • pipping
  • playing
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pocketing
  • preferring
  • prepossessing
  • preselecting
  • presentable
  • pressing
  • presuming
  • pretty
  • prettyish
  • procuring
  • provocative
  • pulchritudinous
  • pulling
  • purchasing
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • questing
  • radiant
  • ratifying
  • ravishing
  • reacting
  • rebuying
  • receiving
  • redounding
  • regulating
  • repurchasing
  • requiring
  • respecting
  • resplendent
  • responding
  • resulting
  • routing
  • rubbing out
  • running
  • sanctioning
  • scoring
  • scragging
  • seating
  • securing
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • seizing
  • selecting
  • setting
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • sexy
  • shellacking
  • shouldering
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • slick
  • smiting
  • smoking
  • snatching
  • snazzy
  • snowing under
  • snuffing
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • standing
  • standing for
  • statuesque
  • steering
  • sticking out
  • stipulating
  • stomaching
  • stopping
  • striking
  • studly
  • stunning
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • sublime
  • succeeding
  • suffering
  • suiciding
  • superb
  • supporting
  • supposing
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • swaying
  • sweating out
  • sweeping
  • sweet
  • swinging
  • tabbing
  • tagging
  • taking effect
  • taking hold
  • taking out
  • tantalizing
  • tapping
  • teasing
  • telegenic
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • thrashing
  • tolerating
  • toothsome
  • topping
  • toughing it out
  • transcending
  • transferable
  • transmittable
  • treating
  • trimming
  • trouncing
  • trusting
  • understanding
  • unseating
  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • wasting
  • waxing
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • welcoming
  • well-favored
  • whacking
  • whipping
  • wilting
  • winning
  • winsome
  • withering
  • working
  • worsening
  • worsting
  • zingy

wanting

  • abominable
  • absent
  • abysmal
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • appreciating
  • asking
  • atrocious
  • away
  • awful
  • bad
  • bankrupt
  • bare
  • bastard
  • bearing
  • begging
  • below par
  • bereft
  • brutal
  • bum
  • burned out
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • calling for
  • challenging
  • cheesy
  • cherishing
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • coarse
  • commanding
  • common
  • cooked
  • counterfeit
  • coveting
  • crappy
  • craving
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • cut off
  • cut-rate
  • damnable
  • dead
  • deciding
  • defective
  • deficient
  • defunct
  • demanding
  • departed
  • deplorable
  • deprived
  • desiderating
  • desiring
  • destitute
  • determining
  • detestable
  • devoid
  • digging
  • disappointing
  • disastrous
  • dissatisfactory
  • done
  • dreadful
  • egregious
  • empty
  • enjoining
  • enjoying
  • entailing
  • exacting
  • execrable
  • expired
  • extinct
  • failing
  • fake
  • fancying
  • faulty
  • favoring
  • feeling like
  • finished
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • from hunger
  • gnarly
  • gone
  • gross
  • half-baked
  • hand-to-mouth
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • ill
  • imperfect
  • in default
  • inadequate
  • incomplete
  • inferior
  • insisting
  • insufficient
  • involving
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lame
  • lapsed
  • lean
  • less
  • lesser
  • light
  • liking
  • lost
  • lousy
  • loving
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • mere
  • minimum
  • minus
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • missing
  • necessitating
  • needed
  • needing
  • niggardly
  • nonexistent
  • not good enough
  • not up to par
  • obsolete
  • odious
  • off
  • omitted
  • out of gas
  • over
  • paltry
  • patchy
  • pathetic
  • perished
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pleasing
  • poor
  • preferring
  • pressing
  • prizing
  • punk
  • questing
  • rare
  • relishing
  • reprehensible
  • requiring
  • resolving
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • sans
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • scurrilous
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • shy
  • sketchy
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • slender
  • slight
  • slim
  • small
  • sour
  • spare
  • sparse
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • stipulating
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • taking
  • terrible
  • too little too late
  • trashy
  • treasuring
  • unacceptable
  • uncommon
  • under par
  • unfulfilled
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • useless
  • valueless
  • valuing
  • vanished
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • warranting
  • welcoming
  • willing
  • wishing
  • without
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

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