facilitate

The word “facilitate” has 4 syllables: fa-cil-i-tate

It's pronounced as /fəˈsɪl.ɪ.teɪt/


What is synonym and antonym for facilitate?

In the thesaurus, “facilitate” has 31 synonyms and 21 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for facilitate

  • abet
  • accelerate
  • advance
  • aid
  • assist
  • disentangle
  • ease
  • expedite
  • forward
  • further
  • grease
  • grease the wheels
  • hand-carry
  • hasten
  • help
  • hurry
  • improve
  • make easy
  • open doors
  • promote
  • quicken
  • run interference for
  • rush
  • simplify
  • smooth
  • speed
  • speed up
  • streamline
  • unclog
  • untangle
  • walk through

Antonyms for facilitate

  • aggravate
  • block
  • cease
  • check
  • complicate
  • delay
  • detain
  • halt
  • hinder
  • hurt
  • impede
  • injure
  • make difficult
  • obstruct
  • perplex
  • prohibit
  • retard
  • slow
  • sophisticate
  • stop
  • worsen

Meanings of facilitate

  • verb
    1. To make easy or easier.
    2. To help bring about.
    3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

Example Sentences

  • The new software aims to facilitate seamless communication among team members.
  • Teachers use various methods to facilitate student engagement in the classroom.
  • The community center offers programs to facilitate skill development in young adults.
  • Technology has greatly facilitated the exchange of information across the globe.
  • The training session is designed to facilitate a smooth transition for new employees.

On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to facilitate, such as: abet, accelerate, advance, aggravate, aid, assist, block.

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

Related Words

abet

  • activate
  • advance
  • advise
  • advocate
  • aid
  • assist
  • attend
  • back
  • backstop
  • bail out
  • bear a hand
  • benefit
  • bolster
  • boost
  • brew
  • buttress
  • champion
  • comfort
  • condone
  • counsel
  • cultivate
  • deliver
  • detonate
  • ease
  • egg on
  • embolden
  • encourage
  • endorse
  • energize
  • enflame
  • enliven
  • excite
  • facilitate
  • favor
  • ferment
  • fire
  • foment
  • forward
  • foster
  • further
  • galvanize
  • goad
  • guide
  • hearten
  • help
  • incite
  • indorse
  • inflame
  • inspire
  • instigate
  • invigorate
  • launch
  • mentor
  • motivate
  • nourish
  • nurture
  • oblige
  • patronize
  • pick
  • prod
  • profit
  • promote
  • provoke
  • quicken
  • raise
  • reenforce
  • reinforce
  • rescue
  • rouse
  • sanction
  • save
  • serve
  • set
  • set in motion
  • set off
  • sow
  • sponsor
  • spur
  • stimulate
  • succor
  • support
  • sustain
  • to stand one in good stead
  • trigger
  • urge
  • vitalize

back

  • aback
  • abaft
  • abet
  • abide by
  • about
  • across
  • adopt
  • advance
  • advise
  • advocate
  • affirm
  • aft
  • after
  • ago
  • agone
  • aid
  • ally
  • angel
  • anticlockwise
  • around
  • assist
  • astern
  • athwart
  • attend
  • avouch
  • back end
  • back of
  • backside
  • backstop
  • backtrack
  • backward
  • backwards
  • bail out
  • bankroll
  • bear a hand
  • behind
  • benefit
  • bolster
  • boost
  • buttress
  • champion
  • chink
  • comfort
  • confirm
  • corroborate
  • counsel
  • countenance
  • counter
  • counterclockwise
  • delayed
  • deliver
  • dorsal
  • down
  • downfall
  • downward
  • downwards
  • drive back
  • ease
  • elapsed
  • embolden
  • embrace
  • encourage
  • endorse
  • espouse
  • establish
  • extremity
  • facilitate
  • fall back
  • far end
  • favor
  • final
  • finance
  • following
  • former
  • forward
  • foster
  • further
  • give a boost
  • give a leg up
  • give a lift
  • go in for
  • go to bat for
  • grubstake
  • guide
  • hamartia
  • hearten
  • help
  • hind
  • hinder
  • hindmost
  • hindpart
  • hindquarters
  • hold a brief for
  • in the wake of
  • indorse
  • jugular
  • launch
  • left-handed
  • left-handedly
  • mentor
  • nurture
  • oblige
  • obversely
  • overdue
  • past
  • patronize
  • plug
  • posterior
  • preach
  • previous
  • profit
  • promote
  • prove
  • rear
  • rearmost
  • rearward
  • rearwards
  • recede
  • reenforce
  • regress
  • reinforce
  • repel
  • repulse
  • rescue
  • retire
  • retract
  • retreat
  • retrograde
  • reverse
  • reversely
  • round
  • ruin
  • sanction
  • save
  • second
  • serve
  • side with
  • since
  • soft spot
  • sponsor
  • stake
  • stand behind
  • stand up for
  • stern
  • sternforemost
  • stick by
  • stick up for
  • subsidize
  • substantiate
  • succor
  • support
  • sustain
  • syne
  • tail
  • tail end
  • tailpiece
  • talk up
  • to stand one in good stead
  • tragic flaw
  • turn tail
  • underbelly
  • underwrite
  • undoing
  • uphold
  • validate
  • verify
  • widdershins
  • withdraw
  • withershins

ease

  • abandon
  • abandonment
  • abate
  • abbreviate
  • abet
  • abridge
  • accelerate
  • adroitness
  • advance
  • affability
  • affluence
  • aid
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • alleviation
  • ameliorate
  • amend
  • anesthetize
  • aplomb
  • appease
  • appeasement
  • ardor
  • assist
  • assuage
  • assuagement
  • ataraxia
  • attend to
  • bed of roses
  • better
  • blank check
  • breeze
  • calm
  • calming
  • calmness
  • carelessness
  • carte blanche
  • casualness
  • catnapping
  • cheer
  • cinch
  • clear the way
  • cleverness
  • clip
  • collapse
  • comfort
  • composure
  • compress
  • condense
  • constrict
  • content
  • contentment
  • contract
  • correct
  • crop
  • cure
  • curtail
  • cut
  • cut back
  • cut down
  • de-escalate
  • decline
  • decompression
  • decrease
  • deflate
  • dent
  • deplete
  • detach
  • dexterity
  • diminish
  • diminishment
  • disburden
  • disengage
  • disentangle
  • dispatch
  • dock
  • doctor
  • dolce far niente
  • downscale
  • downsize
  • dozing
  • drop
  • duck soup
  • dwindle
  • easiness
  • easygoingness
  • ebb
  • edge
  • efficiency
  • effortlessness
  • emend
  • enhance
  • enrich
  • enthusiasm
  • evaporate
  • excess
  • excessiveness
  • expedite
  • expertise
  • expertness
  • extricate
  • exuberance
  • facilitate
  • fall
  • fall away
  • familiarity
  • fervor
  • fix
  • flag
  • flexibility
  • fluency
  • forward
  • free
  • free hand
  • further
  • give out
  • gratification
  • grease
  • handle
  • happiness
  • hasten
  • heal
  • heedlessness
  • help
  • hurry
  • idleness
  • immoderacy
  • improve
  • impulsiveness
  • impulsivity
  • inactivity
  • inch
  • incontinence
  • indiscretion
  • induce
  • indulgence
  • inertia
  • inertness
  • informality
  • insert
  • insouciance
  • intemperance
  • join
  • knack
  • knock down
  • lazing
  • leisure
  • lessen
  • let up
  • let up on
  • liberty
  • licentiousness
  • lift
  • lighten
  • lightheartedness
  • loose
  • loosen
  • lower
  • luxury
  • make easier
  • maneuver
  • meliorate
  • mend
  • minimize
  • mitigate
  • mitigation
  • moderate
  • moderation
  • modify
  • modulate
  • mollification
  • mollify
  • napping
  • naturalness
  • nick
  • nonchalance
  • nurse
  • offhandedness
  • open the door
  • pacify
  • pall
  • palliate
  • pare
  • peace
  • peace of mind
  • peacefulness
  • perfect
  • permissiveness
  • phase down
  • placidity
  • poise
  • promote
  • prosperity
  • prune
  • pushover
  • qualify
  • quicken
  • quickness
  • quiet
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • readiness
  • recede
  • recklessness
  • rectify
  • reduce
  • refine
  • reform
  • relax
  • relaxation
  • relaxedness
  • release
  • relent
  • relief
  • relieve
  • remedy
  • remit
  • remove
  • repair
  • repose
  • requiescence
  • respite
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • resting
  • retrench
  • right
  • run interference for
  • rush
  • salving
  • satisfaction
  • security
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • set right
  • setup
  • shorten
  • shrink
  • silence
  • simplicity
  • simplify
  • sink
  • skillfulness
  • slack
  • slacken
  • slash
  • sleep
  • slide
  • slip
  • slumber
  • slumbering
  • smooth
  • smooth sailing
  • smoothness
  • snap
  • snoozing
  • soften
  • soothe
  • soothing
  • speed
  • speed up
  • spirit
  • spontaneity
  • spontaneousness
  • squeeze
  • steer
  • still
  • stillness
  • streamline
  • subside
  • supinity
  • taper
  • taper off
  • temper
  • thoughtlessness
  • tranquility
  • tranquilize
  • tranquillity
  • tranquilness
  • trim
  • truncate
  • unaffectedness
  • unbind
  • unclog
  • unconstraint
  • undo
  • unfasten
  • uninhibitedness
  • unreservedness
  • unrestraint
  • unself-consciousness
  • untangle
  • untie
  • untighten
  • vanish
  • wane
  • wantonness
  • warmth
  • weaken
  • whittle
  • wildness
  • zeal
  • zealotry
  • zealousness

backstop

quicken

  • abet
  • accelerate
  • activate
  • actuate
  • aid
  • animate
  • arouse
  • awake
  • awaken
  • boost
  • brace
  • bundle
  • buoy
  • charge
  • cheer
  • dispatch
  • drive
  • ease
  • electrify
  • embolden
  • encourage
  • energize
  • enflame
  • enkindle
  • enliven
  • excite
  • expedite
  • facilitate
  • fast-track
  • ferment
  • fillip
  • fire
  • foment
  • fortify
  • galvanize
  • goad
  • grow
  • hasten
  • hearten
  • hurry
  • impel
  • incite
  • increase
  • inflame
  • infuse
  • innervate
  • innerve
  • inspire
  • instigate
  • invigorate
  • juice up
  • jump-start
  • kindle
  • lift
  • liven
  • make haste
  • motivate
  • motive
  • move
  • pique
  • precipitate
  • prod
  • promote
  • propel
  • provoke
  • push
  • race
  • raise
  • rally
  • reactivate
  • reanimate
  • reawake
  • reawaken
  • recharge
  • recreate
  • reenergize
  • refresh
  • refreshen
  • regenerate
  • reinvigorate
  • rejuvenate
  • rekindle
  • renew
  • restimulate
  • resurrect
  • resuscitate
  • revitalize
  • revive
  • rouse
  • rush
  • set off
  • shake up
  • spark
  • speed
  • spike
  • spring
  • spur
  • steel
  • step up
  • stimulate
  • stir
  • strengthen
  • trigger
  • turn on
  • urge
  • vitalize
  • vivificate
  • vivify
  • whisk

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