faculty

The word “faculty” has 3 syllables: fac-ul-ty

It's pronounced as /ˈfæk.əl.ti/


What is synonym and antonym for faculty?

In the thesaurus, “faculty” has 116 synonyms and 41 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for faculty

  • ability
  • academics
  • address
  • adequacy
  • adroitness
  • advisers
  • affinity
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • bent
  • bias
  • body
  • capability
  • capableness
  • capacity
  • cleverness
  • clinic
  • college
  • competence
  • competency
  • corps
  • deftness
  • department
  • dexterity
  • disposition
  • ear
  • effectiveness
  • effectualness
  • employees
  • endowment
  • equipment
  • eye
  • facility
  • feel
  • fitness
  • flair
  • form
  • forte
  • function
  • genius
  • gift
  • gray matter
  • habitude
  • hand
  • hang
  • head
  • impulse
  • inclination
  • influence
  • instinct
  • institute
  • instructors
  • intelligence
  • ken
  • knack
  • knowing way around
  • leaning
  • lecturers
  • literati
  • means
  • mentors
  • might
  • mind
  • nose
  • organization
  • partiality
  • peculiarity
  • pedagogues
  • penchant
  • personnel
  • pistol
  • potency
  • potential
  • power
  • predilection
  • predisposition
  • proclivity
  • professorate
  • professors
  • proficiency
  • profs
  • propensity
  • property
  • prowess
  • puissance
  • quality
  • readiness
  • reason
  • researchers
  • resourcefulness
  • resources
  • right stuff
  • scholars
  • sense
  • skill
  • society
  • specialism
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • staff
  • staying power
  • strength
  • stuff
  • talent
  • tendency
  • touch
  • turn
  • tutors
  • understanding
  • university
  • usefulness
  • way
  • what it takes
  • wherewithal
  • wits
  • workers

Antonyms for faculty

  • antipathy
  • debilitation
  • defectiveness
  • deficiency
  • disability
  • disablement
  • disinclination
  • dislike
  • handicap
  • hate
  • helplessness
  • ignorance
  • impairment
  • impotence
  • inability
  • inadequacy
  • inadequateness
  • inaptitude
  • inaptness
  • incapability
  • incapableness
  • incapacitation
  • incapacity
  • incompetence
  • incompetency
  • ineffectiveness
  • ineffectuality
  • ineffectualness
  • inefficaciousness
  • inefficacy
  • ineptitude
  • ineptness
  • lack
  • need
  • paralysis
  • powerlessness
  • shortcoming
  • students
  • stupidity
  • uselessness
  • weakness

Meanings of faculty

  • noun
    1. The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
    2. A division of a university.
    3. An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
    4. A power, authority or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
    5. (Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
    6. The members of a profession.

Example Sentences

  • The university faculty members collaborated on a groundbreaking research project.
  • Her keen analytical faculty allowed her to quickly grasp complex concepts.
  • The medical school faculty played a crucial role in shaping future healthcare professionals.
  • The artist's creative faculty was evident in every brushstroke of the masterpiece.
  • As a professor, she encouraged students to explore their intellectual faculty and think critically.

On this page you'll find 157 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to faculty, such as: ability, academics, address, adequacy, adroitness, advisers, affinity.

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

Related Words

ability

  • aptitude
  • capability
  • capacity
  • competence
  • expertise
  • faculty
  • ingenuity
  • intelligence
  • proficiency
  • qualification
  • skill
  • strength
  • talent
  • understanding

earshot

  • ambit
  • amplitude
  • area
  • audition
  • auditory
  • auditory range
  • bounds
  • circle
  • close range
  • compass
  • confines
  • detecting
  • diapason
  • dimension
  • dimensions
  • distance
  • distinguishing
  • domain
  • ear
  • effect
  • elbowroom
  • expanse
  • extension
  • extensity
  • extent
  • eyeshot
  • faculty
  • field
  • gamut
  • hail
  • hearing
  • hearing distance
  • holler
  • ken
  • latitude
  • leeway
  • length
  • limits
  • listening
  • magnitude
  • matter
  • near
  • neighborhood
  • next door
  • not far
  • orbit
  • order
  • panorama
  • parameters
  • perception
  • play
  • province
  • purview
  • radius
  • range
  • reach
  • realm
  • recording
  • run
  • run of
  • scope
  • sense
  • shouting distance
  • sight
  • sound
  • space
  • span
  • spectrum
  • sphere
  • spitting distance
  • spread
  • stretch
  • sweep
  • swing
  • territory
  • tune
  • vicinity
  • volume
  • width

officers

  • board
  • bureau
  • cabinet
  • cadre
  • committee
  • constable
  • constables
  • cops
  • crew
  • department
  • detective
  • executive
  • faculty
  • force
  • law enforcement
  • legislature
  • man
  • management
  • ministry
  • officer
  • officials
  • organization
  • patrolman
  • patrolwoman
  • personnel
  • police
  • policemen
  • policewoman
  • presidency
  • squad
  • staff
  • team
  • troops
  • work force

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