calls for

The phrase “calls for” has 2 syllables: calls for

It's pronounced as /kɔːlz fɔːr/


What is synonym and antonym for calls for?

In the thesaurus, “calls for” has 61 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for calls for

Antonyms for calls for

  • cancels
  • countermands
  • dislike
  • gives up
  • has
  • have
  • holds
  • owns
  • possesses
  • relinquishes
  • rescinds
  • surrenders
  • yields

Example Sentences

  • The recipe calls for two cups of flour and one cup of sugar.
  • The situation calls for immediate action to address the pressing issue.
  • His behavior calls for a serious discussion about boundaries and expectations.
  • The job calls for someone with strong leadership skills and a strategic mindset.
  • The weather forecast calls for rain showers in the afternoon, so don't forget your umbrella.

On this page you'll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to calls for, such as: ask for, asks, badgers, bears, begs, bespeaks, calls.

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

Related Words

calls

  • abandons
  • aborts
  • abrogates
  • accounts
  • adjudications
  • alerts
  • amasses
  • announces
  • annuls
  • anticipates
  • asks
  • assembles
  • augurs
  • awards
  • baptizes
  • barks
  • bawls
  • bays
  • bear markets
  • beckons
  • beeps
  • behests
  • beliefs
  • believes
  • bellows
  • bids
  • birthrights
  • blats
  • bleats
  • bodes
  • brands
  • brays
  • breaks off
  • bull markets
  • buzzes
  • cackles
  • calculates
  • callbacks
  • callings
  • calls for
  • calls in
  • calls off
  • calls out
  • calls up
  • cancels
  • caterwauls
  • cautions
  • caws
  • charges
  • cheeps
  • chirps
  • choices
  • christens
  • cites
  • claims
  • clepes
  • clucks
  • code-names
  • cold calls
  • cold-calls
  • collects
  • comes by
  • comes over
  • commandments
  • commands
  • conceives
  • concludes
  • conclusions
  • conference calls
  • conjectures
  • consensuses
  • considers
  • convenes
  • convictions
  • convokes
  • coos
  • countermands
  • counts
  • crakes
  • cries
  • cries off
  • croaks
  • crows
  • decisions
  • declares
  • decrees
  • deduces
  • deems
  • deliverances
  • demands
  • denominates
  • denotes
  • designates
  • determinations
  • diagnoses
  • dials
  • dibs
  • dictates
  • directives
  • directs
  • discontinues
  • dispositions
  • divines
  • dooms
  • drop-ins
  • drops
  • drops by
  • drops in
  • dubs
  • edicts
  • ends
  • entitles
  • esteems
  • estimates
  • examinations
  • explorations
  • extrapolates
  • eyes
  • fancies
  • favors
  • feelings
  • feels
  • figures
  • findings
  • forbodes
  • forebodes
  • forecasts
  • foreknows
  • foresees
  • foretells
  • forewarns
  • frequents
  • gages
  • gathers
  • gauges
  • get-togethers
  • gives up
  • groups
  • grunts
  • guesses
  • hails
  • halloos
  • halts
  • haunts
  • heralds
  • holds
  • holds back
  • hollers
  • hollos
  • honks
  • hoots
  • howls
  • imagines
  • infers
  • inquests
  • inquiries
  • inquisitions
  • instructions
  • interrogations
  • interrogatories
  • interrupts
  • invalidates
  • investigations
  • invites
  • invokes
  • judgements
  • judges
  • judgments
  • knells
  • labels
  • last words
  • looks up
  • lows
  • makes
  • mandates
  • markets
  • meetings
  • meows
  • messages
  • mews
  • miaows
  • minds
  • miscalls
  • misnames
  • mistitles
  • moos
  • musters
  • names
  • neighs
  • nicknames
  • nominates
  • notes
  • notions
  • nullifies
  • oinks
  • opinions
  • options
  • ordains
  • orders
  • pages
  • peeps
  • persuasions
  • petitions
  • phones
  • places
  • polls
  • portends
  • predicts
  • prerogatives
  • presages
  • pretences
  • pretenses
  • pretensions
  • privileges
  • probes
  • probings
  • proclaims
  • prognosticates
  • promises
  • prophesies
  • puts
  • quacks
  • queries
  • questionings
  • questionnaires
  • questions
  • rallies
  • rates
  • reads
  • reasons
  • reassembles
  • recalls
  • recants
  • rechristens
  • reckons
  • reconvenes
  • refusals
  • regards
  • relabels
  • relinquishes
  • renames
  • rendezvous
  • repeals
  • requests
  • requires
  • requisitions
  • rescinds
  • researches
  • resolutions
  • retracts
  • reverses
  • revokes
  • rights
  • rings
  • roars
  • rolls back
  • rounds up
  • rulings
  • runs in
  • say-sos
  • scraps
  • screams
  • screeches
  • scrubs
  • sees
  • selections
  • sends for
  • senses
  • sentences
  • sentiments
  • sets down
  • shouts
  • shrieks
  • shrills
  • sings
  • sounds off
  • speaks out
  • speaks up
  • specifies
  • squalls
  • squawks
  • squeaks
  • squeals
  • steps in
  • stigmatizes
  • stopovers
  • stops
  • studies
  • styles
  • subpoenas
  • summons
  • supposes
  • surnames
  • surrenders
  • surveys
  • suspends
  • tags
  • takes back
  • takes for
  • telephones
  • terminates
  • terms
  • thinks
  • thunders
  • titles
  • toll calls
  • trumpets
  • trysts
  • tu-whit tu-whoos
  • twitters
  • ululates
  • understands
  • vaticinates
  • verdicts
  • views
  • visitations
  • visits
  • vociferates
  • voice mails
  • voids
  • wails
  • warns
  • whinnies
  • whistles
  • whoops
  • withdraws
  • words
  • writes off
  • yaps
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yells
  • yelps
  • yips
  • yowls

educes

elicits

necessitates

needs

  • advantages
  • appointments
  • arrangements
  • asks
  • bears
  • begs
  • burdens
  • calls for
  • challenges
  • charges
  • claims
  • coercions
  • commands
  • commitments
  • compacts
  • compulsions
  • conditions
  • constraints
  • contracts
  • covenants
  • debts
  • demands
  • desiderata
  • desiderations
  • devoirs
  • dos
  • duresses
  • duties
  • edges
  • engagements
  • enjoins
  • entails
  • essentials
  • exacts
  • exigencies
  • exigency
  • forces
  • imperatives
  • incumbencies
  • ineluctably
  • inescapably
  • inevitably
  • insists
  • involuntarily
  • involves
  • ipso facto
  • lacks
  • must
  • must-haves
  • musts
  • necessaries
  • necessarily
  • necessitates
  • necessities
  • necessity
  • need
  • needfuls
  • oaths
  • obligations
  • offices
  • onuses
  • pacts
  • payments
  • perforce
  • pledges
  • pluses
  • plusses
  • pre-arrangements
  • prearrangements
  • preconditions
  • prerequisites
  • presses
  • promises
  • quests
  • requirement
  • requirements
  • requires
  • requisites
  • reservations
  • responsibilities
  • restraints
  • setups
  • shall
  • should
  • sine qua nons
  • sine quibus non
  • stipulates
  • takes
  • tributes
  • troths
  • trusts
  • unavoidably
  • vows
  • want
  • wants
  • warrants
  • will
  • wishes
  • words

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