factor

The word “factor” has 2 syllables: fac-tor

It's pronounced as /ˈfæktər/


What is synonym and antonym for factor?

In the thesaurus, “factor” has 95 synonyms and 18 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for factor

  • agency
  • agent
  • aid
  • alternate
  • ambassador
  • antecedent
  • arbiter
  • arbitrator
  • aspect
  • assignee
  • attorney
  • backup
  • basis
  • board
  • broker
  • building block
  • cause
  • characteristic
  • circumstance
  • commissary
  • component
  • comprador
  • compradore
  • conciliator
  • consideration
  • constituent
  • delegate
  • deputy
  • detail
  • diplomat
  • diplomatist
  • distributor
  • division
  • element
  • emissary
  • envoy
  • facet
  • feature
  • foreign minister
  • fragment
  • go-between
  • influence
  • informer
  • ingredient
  • instrument
  • instrumentality
  • intercessor
  • intermediary
  • interposer
  • item
  • legate
  • liaison
  • manager
  • means
  • mediator
  • member
  • middleman
  • minister
  • mouthpiece
  • operative
  • part
  • part and parcel
  • particle
  • particular
  • partition
  • peacemaker
  • piece
  • pinch hitter
  • plenipotentiary
  • point
  • point man
  • point person
  • portion
  • procurator
  • prophet
  • proxy
  • relief
  • rep
  • replacement
  • representative
  • section
  • sector
  • segment
  • speaker
  • spokesman
  • spokesperson
  • spy
  • stand-in
  • sub
  • subcomponent
  • substitute
  • surrogate
  • thing
  • trait
  • understudy

Antonyms for factor

  • admixture
  • aggregate
  • amalgam
  • amalgamation
  • blend
  • combination
  • composite
  • compound
  • entirety
  • intermixture
  • mass
  • mix
  • mixture
  • sum
  • summation
  • total
  • totality
  • whole

Meanings of factor

  • noun
    1. A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
    2. An agent or representative.
    3. A commission agent.
    4. A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
    5. A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
    6. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
    7. Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
    8. (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
    9. A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
    10. A steward or bailiff of an estate.
  • verb
    1. To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
    2. (of a number or other mathematical object) To be a product of other objects.
    3. (commercial) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

Example Sentences

  • The weather proved to be a significant factor in the success of the outdoor event.
  • A positive attitude can be a crucial factor in overcoming life's challenges.
  • Economic stability is often influenced by the global market factor.
  • Time management is a key factor for success in any project.
  • Personal motivation plays a vital factor in achieving fitness goals.

On this page you'll find 113 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to factor, such as: admixture, agency, agent, aggregate, aid, alternate, amalgam.

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

Related Words

A1

  • 24-carat
  • A-OK
  • OK
  • acceptable
  • ace
  • adequate
  • all right
  • awesome
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • beautiful
  • best
  • better
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brave
  • bully
  • bumper
  • capital
  • choice
  • choicest
  • classic
  • classical
  • cool
  • corking
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • dandy
  • decent
  • divine
  • dope
  • down
  • dynamite
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • flawless
  • four-star
  • frontline
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • gone
  • good
  • grand
  • great
  • greatest
  • groovy
  • heavenly
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • highest
  • hot
  • hype
  • ideal
  • immense
  • jim-dandy
  • keen
  • lovely
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • matchless
  • maximum
  • mean
  • most advantageous
  • most favorable
  • neat
  • nifty
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • okay
  • optimal
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • peak
  • peerless
  • perfect
  • phat
  • premium
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • quality
  • radical
  • righteous
  • satisfactory
  • select
  • sensational
  • slick
  • solid-gold
  • special
  • splendid
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • swell
  • terrific
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • unsurpassed
  • wizard
  • wonderful
  • world-class

ABCs

  • ABCs
  • Bible
  • abecedarian
  • accessory
  • accidence
  • account
  • acknowledgment
  • affidavit
  • affirmation
  • allegation
  • alphabet
  • amount
  • annal
  • announcement
  • article
  • articulation
  • aside
  • asseveration
  • assurance
  • authority
  • averment
  • avowal
  • axiom
  • background
  • bare bones
  • basal
  • base
  • basic
  • basics
  • basis
  • beacon
  • bed
  • bedrock
  • beginning
  • beginnings
  • belief
  • bellwether
  • blow-by-blow
  • body
  • bottom
  • bottom line
  • brass tacks
  • brief
  • bulletin
  • burden
  • canon
  • cap
  • capital
  • case
  • catalog
  • center
  • chapter and verse
  • character
  • characterization
  • characters
  • charge
  • chronicle
  • circumstance
  • circumstantiality
  • clear
  • clue
  • coal-and-ice
  • comment
  • communication
  • compendium
  • component
  • condition
  • confession
  • constituent
  • core
  • cornerstone
  • corpus
  • count
  • crux
  • cue
  • declaration
  • definition
  • delineation
  • depiction
  • description
  • design
  • detail
  • dictum
  • directory
  • doctrine
  • dogma
  • dope
  • drift
  • duck soup
  • easy
  • effect
  • ejaculation
  • element
  • elemental
  • elements
  • enchiridion
  • essence
  • essential
  • essentiality
  • essentials
  • explanation
  • explication
  • facile
  • fact
  • factor
  • facts of life
  • faith
  • feature
  • fine point
  • fingerprint
  • fire and ice
  • first principles
  • first steps
  • focus
  • foot
  • footing
  • foundation
  • foundational
  • fraction
  • fundamental
  • fundamentals
  • fundaments
  • general meaning
  • gist
  • gospel
  • grammar
  • graphic representation
  • gravamen
  • groceries
  • ground
  • groundwork
  • guidebook
  • guiding light
  • guts
  • handbook
  • heart
  • hieroglyphs
  • history
  • hot lead
  • ideograph
  • import
  • information
  • infrastructure
  • initial
  • innards
  • introductory
  • item
  • justification
  • kernel
  • key
  • keystone
  • know
  • landmark
  • law
  • linguistics
  • lodestar
  • lowdown
  • majuscule
  • make
  • manifesto
  • manual
  • mark
  • marker
  • marrow
  • mass
  • matter
  • meat
  • meat and potatoes
  • mention
  • minor point
  • minuscule
  • minutia
  • monograph
  • morphemes
  • morphology
  • must
  • name of the game
  • narration
  • narrative
  • nicety
  • nitty-gritty
  • nub
  • nuts and bolts
  • observation
  • origin
  • original
  • part
  • part and parcel
  • particular
  • peculiarity
  • philosophy
  • phonemes
  • pictograph
  • picture
  • pith
  • plain
  • plan
  • play by play
  • point
  • pointer
  • portion
  • portraiture
  • portrayal
  • precept
  • precondition
  • prefatory
  • preliminaries
  • preliminary
  • preparation
  • prerequisite
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • primary
  • primitive
  • primo
  • principium
  • principle
  • principles
  • print
  • proclamation
  • profession
  • prop
  • protestation
  • purport
  • quintessence
  • rationale
  • reason
  • recital
  • recitation
  • record
  • recountal
  • rehearsal
  • relation
  • remark
  • report
  • representation
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • respect
  • rock bottom
  • root
  • rudiment
  • rudimentary
  • rudiments
  • rule
  • run down
  • rundown
  • rune
  • schedule
  • scoop
  • score
  • sense
  • sentence structure
  • setup
  • sign
  • signal
  • significance
  • signpost
  • signs
  • simplest
  • simplex
  • simplified
  • sine qua non
  • singularity
  • sketch
  • small letter
  • soul
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • specific
  • specification
  • standard
  • staple
  • statement
  • stay
  • story
  • straightforward
  • stratification
  • strength
  • structure
  • stuff
  • subject
  • substance
  • substratal
  • substratum
  • substructure
  • sum total
  • summarization
  • summary
  • support
  • syllabary
  • symbols
  • syntax
  • tab
  • tagmemics
  • take
  • tale
  • technicality
  • telltale
  • tenet
  • tenor
  • testimony
  • the book
  • the numbers
  • the picture
  • the whole picture
  • theme
  • theorem
  • thing
  • thrust
  • tip-off
  • trait
  • trivia
  • triviality
  • type
  • uncial
  • uncomplex
  • uncomplicated
  • underlying
  • underpinning
  • understructure
  • upshot
  • utterance
  • vade mecum
  • ventilation
  • verbalization
  • version
  • vignette
  • virtuality
  • vital part
  • vocalization
  • voice
  • way of it
  • whole story
  • word
  • writeup
  • yarn

abysmally

  • atrociously
  • awfully
  • bad
  • badly
  • damnably
  • deplorably
  • disastrously
  • dreadfully
  • horrendously
  • horribly
  • horrifically
  • inadequately
  • poorly
  • terribly
  • unsatisfactorily

acceptability

acceptable


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