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

  • address
  • adequacy
  • adroitness
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • bent
  • capability
  • capableness
  • capacity
  • cleverness
  • command
  • competence
  • competency
  • comprehension
  • craft
  • deftness
  • dexterity
  • effectiveness
  • effectualness
  • endowment
  • equipment
  • expertise
  • expertness
  • facility
  • faculty
  • finesse
  • fitness
  • flair
  • form
  • genius
  • gift
  • gray matter
  • hand
  • handiness
  • influence
  • ingenuity
  • instinct
  • intelligence
  • ken
  • knack
  • know-how
  • mastery
  • means
  • might
  • mind for
  • particular activity adeptness
  • potency
  • potentiality
  • proficiency
  • prowess
  • puissance
  • qualification
  • reason
  • resourcefulness
  • resources
  • savvy
  • skill
  • skillfulness
  • staying power
  • strength
  • stuff
  • talent
  • the goods
  • the right stuff
  • understanding
  • usefulness
  • what it takes
  • wherewithal

caliber

  • ability
  • appetency
  • benchmark
  • bore
  • capability
  • class
  • competence
  • constitution
  • criterion
  • diameter
  • dignity
  • distinction
  • endowment
  • essence
  • faculty
  • footing
  • force
  • gauge
  • gifts
  • grade
  • habilitation
  • hallmark
  • length
  • mark
  • measure
  • measurement
  • merit
  • nature
  • par
  • parts
  • place
  • position
  • power
  • quality
  • rank
  • rate
  • scope
  • standard
  • standing
  • stature
  • status
  • strength
  • striking power
  • talent
  • touchstone
  • value
  • virtue
  • weight
  • worth
  • worthiness
  • yardstick

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

efficiency

good

  • Junoesque
  • OK
  • a posteriori
  • a priori
  • ability
  • able
  • acceptable
  • acceptably
  • accepting
  • accomplished
  • accurate
  • ace
  • actual
  • adept
  • adequate
  • adequately
  • admirable
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • adroit
  • adulatory
  • advantage
  • advantageous
  • advisable
  • advisory
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • aid
  • all right
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • alleviative
  • alluring
  • alright
  • altruistic
  • ameliorative
  • amelioratory
  • amiable
  • ample
  • amusing
  • analytic
  • analytical
  • angelic
  • angelical
  • anodyne
  • antiseptic
  • appealing
  • applauding
  • applicable
  • appointments
  • appreciative
  • approbatory
  • appropriate
  • appropriately
  • approving
  • apt
  • aptitude
  • aptly
  • ardent
  • arresting
  • aseptic
  • asset
  • assistance
  • astronomic
  • astronomical
  • attested
  • attractive
  • au fait
  • auspicious
  • authenticated
  • avail
  • average
  • avid
  • balanced
  • bang on
  • bearable
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • becoming
  • bedrock
  • befitting
  • behalf
  • belongings
  • benediction
  • benefic
  • beneficent
  • beneficial
  • benefit
  • benevolent
  • benignant
  • bettering
  • big
  • biggish
  • bighearted
  • blameless
  • blessed
  • blessing
  • blest
  • bliss
  • blissful
  • bona fide
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • bonus
  • boon
  • boss
  • bounteous
  • bountiful
  • brave
  • bulky
  • bully
  • bumper
  • calculable
  • calming
  • capability
  • capable
  • capacity
  • capital
  • certain
  • certified
  • charitable
  • charming
  • chattels
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • cherished
  • chocolate-box
  • choice
  • class
  • clean
  • clever
  • cogent
  • cognitive
  • coherent
  • collateral
  • colorable
  • colossal
  • comely
  • comfort
  • comfortable
  • comforting
  • command
  • commendable
  • commendatory
  • commending
  • commodities
  • common
  • commonsense
  • commonsensible
  • commonsensical
  • commonwealth
  • companionate
  • compassionate
  • competence
  • competency
  • competent
  • compleat
  • complete
  • complimentary
  • condign
  • confirmed
  • conformable
  • conforming
  • congenial
  • congruous
  • congruously
  • consequent
  • considerable
  • considerate
  • consolation
  • consonant
  • constant
  • constructive
  • consummate
  • content
  • contentedness
  • convenient
  • convincing
  • copacetic
  • copasetic
  • copesetic
  • correct
  • corrective
  • correctly
  • corroborated
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • credentials
  • credible
  • creditable
  • creditably
  • cunning
  • curative
  • cut out
  • cute
  • dainty
  • darling
  • dead-on
  • decent
  • decently
  • decorous
  • decorously
  • dedicated
  • defendable
  • defensible
  • deft
  • delectable
  • delicate
  • delicious
  • delight
  • delightful
  • delightsome
  • deluxe
  • dependable
  • deserved
  • deserving
  • desirable
  • determined
  • devoted
  • devout
  • dexterous
  • dextrous
  • dignity
  • dishy
  • diverting
  • do-good
  • dollish
  • domestics
  • down-the-line
  • dreamy
  • drop-dead
  • ducky
  • duds
  • due
  • dulcet
  • durable goods
  • durables
  • dutiful
  • dyed-in-the-wool
  • eatable
  • ecstatic
  • educated
  • effective
  • effectively
  • effects
  • effectual
  • effectually
  • efficient
  • efficiently
  • elating
  • eleemosynary
  • elegant
  • elephantine
  • empiric
  • empirical
  • employable
  • enchanting
  • encomiastic
  • endowment
  • endurable
  • engaging
  • enjoyable
  • enormous
  • entertaining
  • enthusiastic
  • entire
  • enviable
  • equal
  • errorless
  • estate
  • esteemed
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • estimable
  • ethical
  • eulogistic
  • euphoric
  • exact
  • excellence
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • exemplary
  • exhilarating
  • experienced
  • expert
  • expertise
  • export
  • exquisite
  • extensive
  • extra
  • eye-catching
  • facility
  • faculty
  • fair
  • fairish
  • faithful
  • fancy
  • fascinating
  • fast
  • faultless
  • favor
  • favorable
  • favoring
  • felicific
  • felicitous
  • felicitously
  • felicity
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fetching
  • fine
  • firm
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • fit
  • fit to eat
  • fitness
  • fitted
  • fitting
  • fittingly
  • fixtures
  • flair
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flattering
  • flawless
  • forte
  • fortune
  • foxy
  • free
  • freehanded
  • fresh
  • friendly
  • fruitful
  • full
  • furnishings
  • gain
  • gainful
  • gear
  • generous
  • genial
  • genius
  • genuine
  • gift
  • gifted
  • gigantic
  • glad
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • gnarly
  • godsend
  • good fortune
  • good-looking
  • good-natured
  • goodly
  • goody-goody
  • gorgeous
  • grace
  • gracious
  • grateful
  • gratification
  • gratifying
  • gratifyingly
  • great
  • greathearted
  • guiltless
  • gung ho
  • habile
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • handsome
  • handy
  • happily
  • happiness
  • happy
  • hard
  • hard goods
  • harmonious
  • health
  • healthful
  • healthiness
  • healthy
  • heavenly
  • hefty
  • help
  • helpful
  • herculean
  • high-grade
  • high-minded
  • holdings
  • honest
  • honorable
  • hospitable
  • hot
  • huge
  • hulking
  • humane
  • humanitarian
  • hunky
  • hunky-dory
  • hygienic
  • ideal
  • idolizing
  • immaculate
  • immeasurable
  • immense
  • impassioned
  • impeccable
  • import
  • in order
  • incorrupt
  • incorrupted
  • incorruptible
  • inculpable
  • indifferent
  • inerrant
  • infallible
  • informed
  • innocent
  • inoffensive
  • intact
  • intent
  • interest
  • intoxicating
  • invaluable
  • inventory
  • inveterate
  • inviting
  • irreprehensible
  • irreproachable
  • jake
  • job lot
  • jolly
  • joy
  • joyous
  • jumbo
  • just
  • justifiable
  • justified
  • kind
  • kindhearted
  • kindly
  • kindness
  • king-size
  • king-sized
  • knack
  • knockout
  • know-how
  • knowledgeable
  • kosher
  • lagniappe
  • large
  • largish
  • laudable
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • law-abiding
  • legitimate
  • letter-perfect
  • levelheaded
  • liberal
  • likely
  • lily-white
  • line
  • logical
  • long
  • long suit
  • long-term
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • loyal
  • lucrative
  • luscious
  • magnanimous
  • magnificent
  • maintainable
  • major
  • makings
  • mammoth
  • manna
  • mannerly
  • marvelous
  • massive
  • master
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • mastership
  • mastery
  • medicinal
  • mediocre
  • meet
  • meetly
  • menschy
  • merchandise
  • merciful
  • mercy
  • merit
  • meritorious
  • metier
  • middling
  • middlingly
  • minimal
  • mitzvah
  • monstrous
  • monumental
  • moral
  • moralistic
  • movables
  • moveables
  • much
  • multiskilled
  • multitalented
  • munificent
  • neat
  • neatly
  • needed
  • nice
  • nicely
  • nirvanic
  • noble
  • nonpoisonous
  • nontoxic
  • normal
  • nourishing
  • nubile
  • nugget
  • nutritional
  • nutritious
  • obedient
  • obliging
  • okay
  • old
  • on target
  • on the ball
  • on the money
  • on-target
  • openhanded
  • openhearted
  • opportune
  • orderly
  • ordinary
  • orthodox
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • overqualified
  • oversize
  • oversized
  • palatable
  • panegyrical
  • paraphernalia
  • passable
  • passably
  • passionate
  • paying
  • perfect
  • personable
  • personal effects
  • personal property
  • personalty
  • pharisaical
  • philanthropic
  • philanthropical
  • photogenic
  • pious
  • pitch-perfect
  • plausible
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • pleasure
  • plum
  • plunder
  • polished
  • polite
  • positive
  • possession
  • potentiality
  • practiced
  • practised
  • praiseful
  • praiseworthy
  • precious
  • precise
  • prepared
  • prepossessing
  • prerogative
  • presentable
  • pretty
  • prettyish
  • priceless
  • primary
  • prime
  • principled
  • prize
  • prized
  • probity
  • prodigious
  • professed
  • proficiency
  • proficient
  • profit
  • profitable
  • promising
  • proper
  • property
  • propitious
  • prosperity
  • prosperousness
  • protean
  • proven
  • pulchritudinous
  • pure
  • qualification
  • qualified
  • quality
  • rad
  • radiant
  • rapturous
  • rational
  • ravishing
  • ready
  • real
  • reasonable
  • reasoned
  • recommendatory
  • recreative
  • rectitude
  • rectitudinous
  • recuperative
  • refined
  • refreshing
  • regular
  • rehabilitative
  • rejuvenating
  • rejuvenescent
  • reliable
  • relief
  • relishable
  • remedial
  • remunerative
  • reputable
  • required
  • requisite
  • resolute
  • respectable
  • respectably
  • respected
  • respectful
  • resplendent
  • responsible
  • restorative
  • rewarding
  • right
  • right-minded
  • righteous
  • righteousness
  • rightful
  • rightly
  • rigorous
  • robustness
  • run-of-mine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • run-of-the-mine
  • safe
  • sake
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • salutiferous
  • sanative
  • sanctimonious
  • sanitary
  • satisfaction
  • satisfactorily
  • satisfactory
  • satisfying
  • satisfyingly
  • savory
  • savoury
  • schooled
  • scrumptious
  • scrupulous
  • seasoned
  • second-rate
  • secure
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • select
  • self-righteous
  • self-sacrificing
  • selfless
  • sensible
  • serious
  • service
  • serviceable
  • serviceably
  • sexy
  • shipshape
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • significant
  • sincere
  • single-minded
  • sizable
  • sizeable
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • slick
  • snazzy
  • so
  • so-so
  • sober
  • social-minded
  • solace
  • solid
  • soothing
  • sound
  • soundness
  • spanking
  • special
  • specialism
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • spot-on
  • spotless
  • stable
  • stanch
  • standard
  • staples
  • statuesque
  • staunch
  • steadfast
  • steady
  • sterling
  • stock
  • straight
  • strict
  • striking
  • stringent
  • strong
  • strong suit
  • studly
  • stuff
  • stunning
  • stupendous
  • sublime
  • substantial
  • substantiated
  • substantive
  • success
  • successfulness
  • sufferable
  • sufficient
  • sufficiently
  • suitability
  • suitable
  • suitableness
  • suitably
  • suited
  • super
  • super-eminent
  • super-excellent
  • superb
  • superior
  • supply
  • support
  • supportable
  • supportive
  • sure
  • sure-handed
  • sustainable
  • sweet
  • sworn
  • syllogistic
  • sympathetic
  • taking
  • talent
  • talented
  • tangibles
  • tasty
  • taught
  • telegenic
  • telling
  • tempting
  • tenable
  • things
  • thorough
  • thoughtful
  • tidily
  • tidy
  • tiptop
  • titanic
  • tolerable
  • tolerably
  • tolerant
  • tonic
  • toothsome
  • toward
  • tractable
  • trained
  • treasure
  • treasured
  • treasures
  • tremendous
  • tried
  • tried-and-true
  • true
  • true-blue
  • trustable
  • trustworthy
  • trusty
  • tutored
  • unblemished
  • uncontaminated
  • uncorrupted
  • undamaged
  • undecayed
  • unerring
  • unexceptional
  • unfaltering
  • unhesitating
  • unhurt
  • unimpaired
  • unimpeachable
  • unobjectionable
  • unquestionable
  • unselfish
  • unsparing
  • unspoiled
  • untainted
  • unwavering
  • up to snuff
  • upright
  • uprightness
  • upstanding
  • use
  • useful
  • usefulness
  • valid
  • validated
  • valuable
  • valuables
  • value
  • veracious
  • verified
  • versatile
  • versed
  • veteran
  • vigorous
  • virtue
  • virtuoso
  • virtuous
  • voluminous
  • wares
  • warm
  • weal
  • welcome
  • welfare
  • well
  • well-behaved
  • well-being
  • well-disposed
  • well-favored
  • well-founded
  • well-grounded
  • well-mannered
  • well-rounded
  • wellness
  • whole
  • wholeness
  • wholesome
  • wholesomeness
  • whopping
  • willing
  • windfall
  • wonderful
  • workmanlike
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • worth
  • worthwhile
  • worthy
  • zingy

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