fall for

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

It's pronounced as /fɔːl fɔːr/


What is synonym and antonym for fall for?

In the thesaurus, “fall for” has 17 synonyms and 18 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for fall for

Antonyms for fall for

  • abhor
  • abominate
  • antagonize
  • despise
  • detest
  • disfavor
  • disgust
  • dislike
  • displease
  • execrate
  • hate
  • loathe
  • nauseate
  • repel
  • repulse
  • revolt
  • sicken
  • turn off

Meanings of fall for

  • verb
    1. To be fooled by; to walk into (a trap) or respond to (a scam or trick).
    2. To fall in love with.

Example Sentences

  • Despite warnings from her friends, she couldn't help but fall for his smooth talk.
  • He knew better than to fall for scams promising quick riches.
  • The detective suspected the suspect was trying to make him fall for a false alibi.
  • After being single for so long, she was hesitant to fall for someone new.
  • The salesman's deceptive tactics were designed to make unsuspecting customers fall for his pitches.

On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fall for, such as: abhor, abominate, adore, adulate, antagonize, canonize, cherish.

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

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fancies

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  • hankering
  • has a soft spot for
  • head trip
  • humor
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  • plans
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  • prefer
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  • unrealities
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  • vagaries
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  • values
  • velleity
  • venerates
  • vision
  • visions
  • visualization
  • visualizations
  • visualize
  • visualizes
  • weakness for
  • weaknesses
  • whim
  • whims
  • whimseys
  • whimsicalities
  • whimsies
  • wild for
  • will
  • wish for
  • worships
  • yearn for
  • yearning
  • yen
  • yens

fancy

  • Byzantine
  • Shangri-la
  • a bit much
  • admire
  • adore
  • adorned
  • appetite
  • appreciate
  • approve
  • baroque
  • be attracted to
  • be captivated by
  • be enamored of
  • be in love with
  • be inclined to think
  • be partial to
  • beautifying
  • bee
  • believe
  • bent
  • bias
  • big eyes
  • boundless
  • brainchild
  • brainstorm
  • brainstorming
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • care for
  • castle in Spain
  • castle in the air
  • cherish
  • chichi
  • chimera
  • cloud-cuckoo-land
  • cloudland
  • complex
  • complicated
  • conceit
  • conceive
  • concept
  • conception
  • concoct
  • concoction
  • conjecture
  • contemplate
  • contrariness
  • contrivance
  • convoluted
  • crank
  • crave
  • craving
  • crazy about
  • creation
  • creativity
  • cup of tea
  • cushy
  • custom
  • daydream
  • daymare
  • decorated
  • decorative
  • delusion
  • deluxe
  • desire
  • detailed
  • devilish
  • devour
  • dig
  • dream
  • dream of
  • dream up
  • druthers
  • elaborate
  • elegant
  • embellished
  • endless
  • endorse
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  • excessive
  • exorbitant
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  • eyes for
  • fable
  • fabricate
  • fabrication
  • fall for
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  • fantasize
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  • fantasy
  • favor
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  • fecundity
  • fertility
  • fiction
  • figment
  • flamboyant
  • flash
  • florid
  • fondness
  • foresee
  • freak
  • freakishness
  • frilly
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  • garnished
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  • get a charge out of
  • get a kick out of
  • gingerbread
  • go for
  • grand
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  • groove
  • guess
  • gusto
  • hallucinate
  • hallucination
  • hankering
  • have a soft spot for
  • head trip
  • humor
  • idea
  • ideate
  • ideation
  • idolize
  • ignis fatuus
  • illusion
  • image
  • imagination
  • imaginativeness
  • imagine
  • imaging
  • immeasurable
  • immoderate
  • impetuosity
  • impression
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  • inclination
  • infer
  • infinite
  • ingenuity
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  • invent
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  • involute
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  • involved
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  • itch
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  • labyrinthine
  • lavish
  • leaning
  • like
  • liking
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  • long for
  • longing
  • love
  • love affair
  • lust after
  • mad for
  • maggot
  • magnificent
  • make up
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  • meditate
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  • mind
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  • muse
  • nightmare
  • nonentity
  • notion
  • originality
  • ornate
  • ostentatious
  • over the top
  • overdue
  • overextravagant
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • overwrought
  • palate
  • partiality
  • passion
  • penchant
  • perverseness
  • phantasm
  • phantasy
  • phantom
  • picture
  • pie in the sky
  • pipe dream
  • plan
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  • plethoric
  • ponder
  • predilection
  • prefer
  • preference
  • prefigure
  • prejudice
  • prize
  • project
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  • re-create
  • realize
  • reckon
  • reflect
  • relish
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  • reminisce
  • resourcefulness
  • resplendent
  • revere
  • reverie
  • rich
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  • romancing
  • ruminate
  • sanction
  • savor
  • savour
  • see
  • shine
  • showy
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  • spark
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  • spitball
  • splendid
  • stargaze
  • steep
  • stiff
  • sumptuous
  • suppose
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  • sweet tooth
  • take a liking to
  • take to
  • taste
  • tendency
  • thick
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  • think
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  • think up
  • thirst
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  • tooth
  • towering
  • treasure
  • trump up
  • unbearable
  • unconscionable
  • undue
  • unjustifiable
  • unmerciful
  • unreality
  • unrestrained
  • unseemly
  • unusual
  • unwarranted
  • use
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  • vagary
  • vagrancy
  • value
  • velleity
  • venerate
  • versatility
  • vision
  • visualization
  • visualize
  • weakness
  • weakness for
  • whim
  • whimsey
  • whimsicality
  • whimsy
  • wild for
  • will
  • wish for
  • worship
  • yearn for
  • yearning
  • yen

love

  • Juliet
  • Romeo
  • admire
  • admirer
  • adoration
  • adore
  • adulate
  • adulation
  • affair
  • affaire
  • affection
  • allegiance
  • amity
  • amorousness
  • amour
  • angel
  • appetite
  • appreciate
  • appreciation
  • apprize
  • ardency
  • ardor
  • attachment
  • baby
  • be attached to
  • be captivated by
  • be crazy about
  • be enamored of
  • be enchanted by
  • be fascinated with
  • be fond of
  • be in love with
  • be partial to
  • beau
  • beloved
  • bent
  • bias
  • bill
  • bounce
  • boy
  • boyfriend
  • bride
  • calf-love
  • canonize
  • canoodle
  • care for
  • caress
  • case
  • cherish
  • cherishing
  • choose
  • clasp
  • cling
  • coddle
  • cosset
  • court
  • courter
  • cradle
  • craving
  • crush
  • cuddle
  • dalliance
  • dandle
  • darling
  • date
  • dear
  • dear one
  • dearest
  • deification
  • deify
  • delight
  • delight in
  • desire
  • devotedness
  • devotion
  • devour
  • dig
  • doll
  • dote on
  • draw close
  • eagerness
  • embrace
  • emotion
  • enchantment
  • enfold
  • enjoy
  • enjoyment
  • enshrine
  • entanglement
  • enthusiasm
  • escort
  • esteem
  • estimation
  • exalt
  • faithfulness
  • fall for
  • fancy
  • favor
  • fealty
  • feel
  • feel up
  • fellow
  • fervor
  • fidelity
  • flame
  • fling
  • flirtation
  • fondle
  • fondness
  • friendship
  • gal
  • gallant
  • gentle
  • get a charge out of
  • get a kick out of
  • girl
  • girlfriend
  • glorify
  • go for
  • gone on
  • groom
  • gusto
  • hankering
  • hanky-panky
  • have a soft spot for
  • have affection for
  • have it bad
  • heartthrob
  • hold
  • hold dear
  • hold high
  • hon
  • honey
  • hug
  • husband
  • idealize
  • idolatry
  • idolization
  • idolize
  • idyl
  • idyll
  • inamorata
  • inamorato
  • inclination
  • indulge
  • infatuation
  • intended
  • interest
  • intrigue
  • involvement
  • kiss
  • knead
  • ladylove
  • lass
  • leaning
  • liaison
  • lick
  • like
  • liking
  • long for
  • longing
  • look tenderly
  • love affair
  • loved one
  • lover
  • loyalty
  • lust
  • mad for
  • make love
  • man
  • massage
  • memorialize
  • mistress
  • mollycoddle
  • neck
  • nestle
  • nose
  • nuzzle
  • palate
  • pamper
  • paramour
  • partiality
  • passion
  • pat
  • paw
  • pet
  • piety
  • prefer
  • preference
  • prejudice
  • press
  • prize
  • propensity
  • puppy love
  • put on pedestal
  • rapture
  • regard
  • relish
  • respect
  • revere
  • reverence
  • romance
  • savor
  • savour
  • sentiment
  • set store by
  • set store on
  • shine
  • significant other
  • snuggle
  • soft spot
  • soothe
  • spark
  • spoil
  • spoon
  • squeeze
  • steadfastness
  • steady
  • stroke
  • suitor
  • swain
  • sweet
  • sweetheart
  • sweetie
  • sweetie pie
  • take to
  • taste
  • tendency
  • tenderness
  • think the world of
  • thirst
  • thrive with
  • tooth
  • tootsie
  • treasure
  • truelove
  • tryst
  • use
  • valentine
  • value
  • venerate
  • weakness
  • wife
  • wild for
  • woo
  • wooer
  • worship
  • yearning
  • yen
  • zeal

take for granted

  • accept
  • accredit
  • admit
  • advance
  • affirm
  • aim for
  • allege
  • apprehend
  • assert
  • assume
  • attach weight to
  • aver
  • avouch
  • avow
  • bank on
  • bargain for
  • be afraid
  • be certain of
  • be convinced of
  • be credulous
  • be informed
  • be of the opinion
  • believe
  • believe in
  • bet bottom dollar
  • bet on
  • brainstorm
  • buy
  • calculate
  • claim
  • concede
  • conceive
  • conclude
  • conjecture
  • consider
  • contend
  • cook up
  • count on
  • credit
  • dare say
  • declare
  • deduce
  • deem
  • depend
  • divine
  • dream
  • estimate
  • expect
  • expect from
  • fall for
  • fancy
  • feel
  • figure
  • gather
  • give credence to
  • glean
  • go out on a limb
  • grant
  • guess
  • guesstimate
  • have
  • have faith in
  • have no doubt
  • hazard a guess
  • hear
  • heed
  • hold
  • hypothecate
  • hypothesize
  • imagine
  • infer
  • insist
  • judge
  • jump the gun
  • keep the faith
  • know
  • lap up
  • lean on
  • learn
  • maintain
  • opine
  • perceive
  • pin faith on
  • place confidence in
  • plan on
  • posit
  • postulate
  • preconceive
  • predicate
  • premise
  • presume
  • presume true
  • presuppose
  • pretend
  • profess
  • propose
  • put forward
  • realize
  • reckon
  • reckon on
  • regard
  • rely
  • rest assured
  • rest on
  • say
  • score
  • spark
  • speculate
  • stake on
  • suppose
  • surmise
  • suspect
  • suspicion
  • swallow
  • swear by
  • tab
  • take
  • take a shot
  • take a stab
  • take as gospel
  • take as gospel truth
  • take it
  • take on trust
  • theorize
  • think
  • trust
  • understand

take to

  • accept
  • acclimate
  • acclimatize
  • accustom
  • adjust
  • admire
  • adore
  • advocate
  • appreciate
  • approbate
  • approve
  • aspire to
  • back
  • be attracted to
  • be captivated by
  • be crazy about
  • be enamored of
  • be fond of
  • be gratified by
  • be in favor of
  • be in love with
  • be keen on
  • be of one mind
  • be on the same wavelength
  • be partial to
  • be pleased by
  • be smitten
  • be sweet on
  • be turned on by
  • break in
  • buck for
  • care for
  • care to
  • champion
  • cherish
  • choose
  • click
  • commend
  • condition
  • confirm
  • cotton to
  • countenance
  • covet
  • crave
  • crazy about
  • delight in
  • derive pleasure from
  • desiderate
  • desire
  • devote
  • devour
  • die over
  • dig
  • dote on
  • dream of
  • encourage
  • endorse
  • endure
  • enjoy
  • esteem
  • eulogize
  • exclaim
  • fall for
  • fall in with
  • familiarize
  • fancy
  • favor
  • feast on
  • find appealing
  • find congenial
  • flash on
  • for
  • get a charge out of
  • get a kick out of
  • get along well
  • give eyeteeth for
  • go for
  • hanker after
  • hanker for
  • harden
  • have a soft spot for
  • have eyes for
  • have the hots for
  • hold dear
  • hold with
  • honor
  • hunger for
  • idolize
  • incline
  • indulge in
  • inure
  • lean toward
  • like
  • long for
  • look up to
  • love
  • lust after
  • luxuriate in
  • mad for
  • make advances to
  • make friends
  • make used to
  • opt for
  • patronize
  • pick
  • pine
  • praise
  • prefer
  • prize
  • regard highly
  • rejoice in
  • relish
  • respect
  • revel in
  • revere
  • root for
  • sanction
  • savor
  • savour
  • school
  • season
  • see eye to eye
  • set heart on
  • single out
  • stuck on
  • support
  • take a liking to
  • take a shine to
  • take an interest in
  • take delight in
  • take satisfaction in
  • think well of
  • thirst
  • tilt toward
  • tolerate
  • train
  • treasure
  • value
  • venerate
  • want
  • wild for
  • wish for
  • worship
  • yearn for

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