takes issue

The phrase “takes issue” has 2 syllables: takes issue

It's pronounced as /teɪks ˈɪʃuː/


What is synonym and antonym for takes issue?

In the thesaurus, “takes issue” has 81 synonyms and 38 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for takes issue

  • argues
  • balks
  • beefs
  • bellyaches
  • bickers
  • bitches
  • bleats
  • carps
  • caterwauls
  • cavils
  • censures
  • challenges
  • clashes
  • collides
  • complains
  • conflicts
  • contests
  • contrasts
  • counters
  • crabs
  • criticizes
  • croaks
  • dares
  • debates
  • defies
  • demonstrates
  • demurs
  • denounces
  • differs
  • disagrees
  • disobeys
  • disputes
  • dissents
  • excepts
  • expostulates
  • falls out
  • fights
  • fusses
  • gags
  • gripes
  • grizzles
  • grouches
  • grouses
  • growls
  • grumbles
  • grumps
  • hassles
  • hollers
  • keens
  • kicks
  • maunders
  • moans
  • murmurs
  • mutters
  • nags
  • nonconcurs
  • objects
  • opposes
  • protests
  • quarrels
  • quibbles
  • rebels
  • remonstrates
  • repines
  • resists
  • screams
  • squabbles
  • squawks
  • squeals
  • sticks
  • takes exception
  • wails
  • whimpers
  • whines
  • whinges
  • withstands
  • wrangles
  • yammers
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yowls

Antonyms for takes issue

  • accedes
  • accepts
  • acquiesces
  • adheres
  • advocates
  • affiliates
  • agrees
  • allies
  • applauds
  • approves
  • assents
  • associates
  • champions
  • cheers
  • collaborates
  • colludes
  • comes round
  • commends
  • complies
  • compromises
  • concurs
  • conforms
  • consents
  • cooperates
  • defends
  • defers
  • follows
  • gets along
  • maintains
  • minds
  • obeys
  • observes
  • sanctions
  • sides
  • subscribes
  • supports
  • sustains
  • upholds

Example Sentences

  • She takes issue with the way the company handles customer complaints.
  • The professor takes issue with the methodology used in the research paper.
  • He takes issue with the government's decision to cut funding for education.
  • The community takes issue with the proposed construction of a factory near their homes.
  • The activist group takes issue with the environmental impact of the new construction project.

On this page you'll find 119 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to takes issue, such as: accedes, accepts, acquiesces, adheres, advocates, affiliates, agrees.

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

Related Words

takes exception

  • balks
  • beefs
  • bellyaches
  • bitches
  • bleats
  • carps
  • caterwauls
  • cavils
  • censures
  • challenges
  • complains
  • conflicts
  • crabs
  • criticizes
  • croaks
  • dares
  • debates
  • defies
  • demonstrates
  • demurs
  • denounces
  • disobeys
  • disputes
  • excepts
  • expostulates
  • fights
  • fusses
  • gags
  • gripes
  • grizzles
  • grouches
  • grouses
  • growls
  • grumbles
  • grumps
  • hassles
  • hollers
  • keens
  • kicks
  • maunders
  • moans
  • murmurs
  • mutters
  • nags
  • objects
  • protests
  • quarrels
  • quibbles
  • rebels
  • remonstrates
  • repines
  • screams
  • squabbles
  • squawks
  • squeals
  • sticks
  • takes issue
  • wails
  • whimpers
  • whines
  • whinges
  • withstands
  • wrangles
  • yammers
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yowls

objects

  • accessaries
  • accessories
  • accompaniments
  • aims
  • ambitions
  • articles
  • aspirations
  • balks
  • baubles
  • beefs
  • being
  • beings
  • bellyaches
  • bitches
  • bleats
  • bodies
  • bournes
  • bourns
  • carps
  • caterwauls
  • cavils
  • censures
  • challenges
  • commodities
  • complains
  • conflicts
  • crabs
  • criticizes
  • croaks
  • curios
  • dares
  • debates
  • defies
  • demonstrates
  • demurs
  • denounces
  • designs
  • desires
  • destinations
  • dinguses
  • disobeys
  • disputes
  • doohickeys
  • doohickies
  • dreams
  • effects
  • ends
  • entities
  • equipment
  • excepts
  • existents
  • expostulates
  • fights
  • fusses
  • gags
  • gauds
  • gear
  • geegaws
  • gewgaws
  • goals
  • goods
  • grails
  • gripes
  • grizzles
  • grouches
  • grouses
  • growls
  • grumbles
  • grumps
  • hassles
  • hollers
  • holy grails
  • hopes
  • ideals
  • ideas
  • impedimenta
  • individual
  • individualities
  • individuals
  • integers
  • intentions
  • intents
  • items
  • junk
  • keens
  • kicks
  • kit
  • knickknacks
  • luggage
  • marks
  • materials
  • matters
  • maunders
  • meanings
  • minds
  • moans
  • murmurs
  • mutters
  • nags
  • nicknacks
  • nirvanas
  • novelties
  • objectives
  • ornamentals
  • paraphernalia
  • pieces
  • plans
  • plots
  • points
  • possessions
  • pretensions
  • projects
  • protests
  • purposes
  • quantities
  • quarrels
  • quibbles
  • realities
  • rebels
  • repines
  • schemes
  • screams
  • spangles
  • squabbles
  • squawks
  • squeals
  • sticks
  • stuff
  • subjects
  • substance
  • substances
  • tackle
  • takes exception
  • takes issue
  • targets
  • termini
  • terminuses
  • thingamabobs
  • thingamajigs
  • things
  • thingumajigs
  • thingummies
  • tokens
  • trappings
  • trinkets
  • wails
  • wares
  • whatchamacallits
  • whatnots
  • whimpers
  • whines
  • whinges
  • wishes
  • withstands
  • wrangles
  • yammers
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yowls

kicks

  • action
  • activity
  • ado
  • adventure
  • agitation
  • ambrosias
  • amusement
  • amusements
  • animation
  • arguments
  • arousals
  • balks
  • bang
  • bangs
  • bashings
  • batterings
  • beefs
  • bellyaches
  • bemoans
  • bewails
  • bitches
  • blast
  • bleats
  • bliss
  • blows
  • blubbers
  • boots
  • bother
  • buffets
  • bumps
  • buoyancy
  • buzz
  • buzzes
  • carps
  • caterwauls
  • cavils
  • censures
  • challenges
  • charge
  • charges
  • cheer
  • cheerfulness
  • circus
  • cloud nine
  • collisions
  • comfort
  • comforts
  • commotion
  • complains
  • complaints
  • compunctions
  • concussions
  • conflicts
  • confusion
  • contacts
  • contentment
  • convulsions
  • crabs
  • crashes
  • cries
  • criticisms
  • criticizes
  • croaks
  • dares
  • debates
  • defiances
  • defies
  • delectation
  • delectations
  • delight
  • delights
  • demonstrates
  • demurrals
  • demurrers
  • demurs
  • denounces
  • deplores
  • difficulties
  • discomposure
  • disobediences
  • disobeys
  • disputes
  • dissents
  • distrust
  • disturbance
  • dither
  • diversion
  • diversions
  • doubts
  • drama
  • dubieties
  • dubitations
  • ease
  • ecstasy
  • elation
  • electrifications
  • emotion
  • encounters
  • enjoyment
  • enjoyments
  • entertainment
  • entertainments
  • enthusiasm
  • euphoria
  • exaltation
  • exceptions
  • excepts
  • excitation
  • excitement
  • exhilaration
  • exhilarations
  • expostulates
  • expostulations
  • exultation
  • feasts
  • feeling
  • felicity
  • ferment
  • festivity
  • fever
  • fights
  • fireworks
  • flash
  • flurry
  • flush
  • frenzy
  • frets
  • frissons
  • frivolity
  • frolic
  • fruition
  • fulfillment
  • fun
  • furor
  • fuss
  • fusses
  • gags
  • gaiety
  • game
  • gases
  • gasses
  • gladness
  • glee
  • gluttony
  • good feeling
  • gratification
  • gratifications
  • gripes
  • grizzles
  • grouches
  • grouses
  • growls
  • grumbles
  • grumps
  • gusto
  • happiness
  • hassles
  • heat
  • high
  • high spirits
  • highs
  • hilarity
  • hit
  • hits
  • hobby
  • hollers
  • hubbub
  • hullabaloo
  • hurry
  • hysteria
  • hysterics
  • impacts
  • impingements
  • impulse
  • incertitudes
  • indeterminations
  • indulgence
  • indulgences
  • inspiration
  • instigation
  • intoxication
  • intoxications
  • inveighs
  • jars
  • jocularity
  • jocundity
  • joie de vivre
  • jollies
  • jollity
  • jolts
  • jounces
  • joviality
  • joy
  • joyfulness
  • joyousness
  • joyride
  • joys
  • jubilation
  • keens
  • kick
  • kicks up a fuss
  • kicks up a stink
  • knocks
  • kvetches
  • laments
  • laughs
  • laughter
  • levity
  • lickings
  • lift
  • lifts
  • lightheartedness
  • luxury
  • mannas
  • maunders
  • meetings
  • melodrama
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • misdoubts
  • misgivings
  • mistrust
  • misunderstandings
  • moans
  • motivation
  • motive
  • movement
  • murmurs
  • mutters
  • nags
  • niggles
  • objections
  • objects
  • passion
  • perturbation
  • pleasure
  • pleasures
  • primrose path
  • protests
  • provocation
  • punches
  • qualms
  • quarrels
  • questions
  • quibbles
  • rage
  • raps
  • rapture
  • rebellions
  • rebels
  • recompense
  • recreation
  • recreations
  • refreshment
  • regalement
  • rejoicing
  • reliefs
  • relish
  • reluctances
  • remonstrances
  • repines
  • reservations
  • response
  • revelry
  • reward
  • rushes
  • satisfaction
  • screams
  • scruples
  • seasoning
  • self-indulgence
  • sensation
  • shocks
  • skepticism
  • slams
  • slaps
  • smashes
  • sobs
  • solace
  • solaces
  • spice
  • sport
  • squabbles
  • squawks
  • squeals
  • statics
  • stews
  • sticks
  • stimulation
  • stimulus
  • stinks
  • stir
  • strikes
  • sure shock
  • surprises
  • surprizes
  • suspicions
  • takes exception
  • takes issue
  • thrashings
  • thrill
  • thrills
  • thumps
  • tingle
  • titillation
  • titillations
  • to-do
  • touches
  • transport
  • treats
  • trepidation
  • triumph
  • tumult
  • turmoil
  • turnon
  • twitter
  • uncertainties
  • up
  • upper
  • urge
  • velvet
  • wails
  • wallop
  • wallops
  • warmth
  • whimpers
  • whines
  • whinges
  • whoopee
  • wildness
  • withstands
  • worries
  • wrangles
  • yammers
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yowls
  • zest

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