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

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  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abolishment
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abortion
  • abrogating
  • accounting
  • alerting
  • amassing
  • announcing
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • anticipating
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  • call
  • calling for
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  • cancelation
  • canceling
  • cancellation
  • cancelling
  • career
  • caterwauling
  • cautioning
  • christening
  • citing
  • cleping
  • code-naming
  • cold-calling
  • collecting
  • coming by
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  • commanding
  • conceiving
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  • convening
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  • countermanding
  • counting
  • craft
  • crowing
  • crying
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  • day gig
  • declaring
  • decreeing
  • deducing
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  • demanding
  • denominating
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  • dialing
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  • dictating
  • directing
  • discontinuing
  • divining
  • do
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  • dropping
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  • dubbing
  • duty
  • employment
  • ending
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • entitling
  • esteeming
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  • extrapolating
  • fancying
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  • field
  • figuring
  • forboding
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  • forecasting
  • foreknowing
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  • frequenting
  • function
  • gaging
  • game
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  • giving up
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  • guessing
  • hailing
  • hallooing
  • halting
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  • handicraft
  • hang
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  • heralding
  • holding
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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

educing

eliciting

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

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