calling

The word “calling” has 2 syllables: call-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈkɔːlɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for calling?

In the thesaurus, “calling” has 297 synonyms and 61 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for calling

  • abandoning
  • abandonment
  • abolishment
  • abolition
  • aborting
  • abortion
  • abrogating
  • accounting
  • alerting
  • amassing
  • announcing
  • annulling
  • annulment
  • anticipating
  • appointment
  • art
  • asking
  • assembling
  • assignment
  • auguring
  • baptising
  • baptizing
  • bawling
  • baying
  • beckoning
  • beeping
  • believing
  • bellowing
  • berth
  • bidding
  • billet
  • boding
  • branding
  • breaking off
  • business
  • buzzing
  • calculating
  • call
  • calling for
  • calling in
  • calling off
  • calling out
  • calling up
  • cancelation
  • canceling
  • cancellation
  • cancelling
  • career
  • caterwauling
  • cautioning
  • christening
  • citing
  • cleping
  • code-naming
  • cold-calling
  • collecting
  • coming by
  • coming over
  • commanding
  • conceiving
  • concluding
  • conjecturing
  • considering
  • convening
  • convoking
  • countermanding
  • counting
  • craft
  • crowing
  • crying
  • crying off
  • day gig
  • declaring
  • decreeing
  • deducing
  • deeming
  • demanding
  • denominating
  • denoting
  • designating
  • dialing
  • dialling
  • dictating
  • directing
  • discontinuing
  • divining
  • do
  • dodge
  • dropping
  • dropping by
  • dropping in
  • dubbing
  • duty
  • employment
  • ending
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • entitling
  • esteeming
  • estimating
  • extrapolating
  • fancying
  • feeling
  • field
  • figuring
  • forboding
  • foreboding
  • forecasting
  • foreknowing
  • foreseeing
  • foretelling
  • forewarning
  • frequenting
  • function
  • gaging
  • game
  • gathering
  • gauging
  • gig
  • giving up
  • go
  • grouping
  • guessing
  • hailing
  • hallooing
  • halting
  • handcraft
  • handicraft
  • hang
  • haunting
  • heralding
  • holding
  • holding back
  • hollering
  • holloing
  • howling
  • imagining
  • inferring
  • interrupting
  • invalidating
  • invalidation
  • inviting
  • invoking
  • job
  • judging
  • knelling
  • labeling
  • labelling
  • lay
  • lifework
  • line
  • livelihood
  • living
  • load
  • looking up
  • making
  • mandating
  • metier
  • miscalling
  • misnaming
  • mission
  • mistitling
  • mustering
  • naming
  • neutralization
  • nicknaming
  • nine-to-five
  • nominating
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • occupation
  • office
  • ordaining
  • ordering
  • paging
  • petitioning
  • phoning
  • place
  • placing
  • play
  • portending
  • position
  • post
  • predicting
  • presaging
  • proclaiming
  • profession
  • prognosticating
  • promising
  • prophesying
  • province
  • pursuit
  • putting
  • racket
  • rallying
  • rat race
  • rating
  • reading
  • reasoning
  • reassembling
  • recall
  • recalling
  • recanting
  • rechristening
  • recision
  • reckoning
  • reconvening
  • regarding
  • relabeling
  • relabelling
  • relinquishing
  • relinquishment
  • renaming
  • repeal
  • repealing
  • requesting
  • requiring
  • requisitioning
  • rescinding
  • rescission
  • retracting
  • reversal
  • reversing
  • revocation
  • revoking
  • ringing
  • roaring
  • rollback
  • rolling back
  • rounding up
  • running in
  • scrapping
  • screaming
  • screeching
  • scrubbing
  • seeing
  • sending for
  • sensing
  • setting down
  • shouting
  • shrieking
  • shrilling
  • singing
  • situation
  • slot
  • sounding off
  • speaking out
  • speaking up
  • specifying
  • squeaking
  • squealing
  • stepping in
  • stigmatizing
  • stopping
  • styling
  • subpoenaing
  • summoning
  • supposing
  • surnaming
  • surrender
  • surrendering
  • suspending
  • swindle
  • tagging
  • taking back
  • taking for
  • task
  • telephoning
  • terminating
  • termination
  • terming
  • thinking
  • thundering
  • titling
  • trade
  • ululating
  • understanding
  • vaticinating
  • viewing
  • visiting
  • vocation
  • vociferating
  • voidance
  • voiding
  • wailing
  • walk of life
  • warning
  • whistling
  • whooping
  • withdrawing
  • work
  • workload
  • writing off
  • yauping
  • yawping
  • yelling
  • yowling

Antonyms for calling

  • amusement
  • avocation
  • banishing
  • beginning
  • breaking up
  • breathing
  • calibrating
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • casting out
  • commencement
  • commencing
  • computing
  • continuation
  • continuing
  • countermanding
  • describing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • ejecting
  • engagement
  • engaging
  • entertainment
  • expelling
  • fun
  • hobby
  • initiating
  • initiation
  • keeping
  • kicking out
  • measuring
  • mumbling
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • narrating
  • ousting
  • outing
  • pastime
  • pledging
  • promising
  • pursuit
  • reciting
  • recounting
  • recreation
  • relating
  • reporting
  • rescinding
  • routing
  • running off
  • scaling
  • starting
  • surrender
  • taking on
  • taking up
  • telling
  • throwing out
  • turning away
  • undertaking
  • unemployment
  • whispering
  • working out

Meanings of calling

  • verb
    1. (heading) To use one's voice.
    2. (heading) To visit.
    3. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
    4. (heading) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
    5. (sometimes with for) To require, demand.
    6. To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
    7. To demand repayment of a loan.
    8. To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
  • noun
    1. A strong urge to become religious.
    2. A job or occupation.

Example Sentences

  • Calling all volunteers! We need your help for the community clean-up event this Saturday.
  • She felt a strong calling to pursue a career in medicine from a young age.
  • The teacher recognized his calling to educate and inspire young minds.
  • Despite the challenges, he remained steadfast in his calling to serve his country as a firefighter.
  • With each brushstroke, the artist found fulfillment in answering her creative calling.

On this page you'll find 358 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to calling, such as: abandoning, abandonment, abolishment, abolition, aborting, abortion, abrogating.

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Related Words

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abatement

  • abolishment
  • abolition
  • abortion
  • abrogation
  • annulment
  • avoidance
  • banning
  • calling off
  • cancelation
  • cancellation
  • countermand
  • curtailment
  • cut
  • cutback
  • decline
  • decrease
  • decrement
  • deduction
  • defeasance
  • dent
  • depletion
  • depreciation
  • depression
  • diminishment
  • diminution
  • disallowance
  • discount
  • dismissal
  • dissolution
  • downturn
  • drop
  • drop-off
  • elimination
  • enjoining
  • eradication
  • erasure
  • fall
  • falloff
  • forbiddance
  • forfeit
  • forfeiture
  • giveback
  • invalidation
  • kickback
  • liquidation
  • loss
  • negation
  • nullification
  • outlawing
  • override
  • overruling
  • overturn
  • penalty
  • prohibition
  • quashing
  • rebate
  • recall
  • reduction
  • rejection
  • removal
  • repeal
  • rescindment
  • retraction
  • retrenchment
  • reversal
  • revocation
  • shortening
  • shrinkage
  • slip
  • slump
  • step-down
  • subtraction
  • suspension
  • veto
  • voiding
  • withdrawal

abating

  • abbreviating
  • abolishing
  • aborting
  • abridging
  • abrogating
  • allaying
  • alleviating
  • analeptic
  • annihilating
  • annulling
  • assuaging
  • avoiding
  • bankrupting
  • banning
  • bereaving
  • breaking down
  • calling
  • calling off
  • canceling
  • cancelling
  • ceasing
  • cheating
  • clipping
  • closing
  • collapsing
  • compressing
  • concluding
  • condensing
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • constricting
  • contracting
  • countermanding
  • cropping
  • crumbling
  • curing
  • curtailing
  • cutting
  • cutting back
  • cutting down
  • de-escalating
  • declinatory
  • declining
  • decreasing
  • decrescent
  • deducting
  • deflating
  • defrauding
  • denting
  • denuding
  • depleting
  • depreciating
  • depriving
  • descending
  • desisting
  • diminishing
  • disallowing
  • disannulling
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • disfurnishing
  • dismissing
  • dissolving
  • divesting
  • docking
  • doing away with
  • downscaling
  • downsizing
  • dropping
  • dwindling
  • dying
  • dying down
  • easing
  • ebbing
  • eliminating
  • encouraging
  • ending
  • enjoining
  • eradicating
  • erasing
  • evaporating
  • expiring
  • fading away
  • falling
  • falling away
  • finishing
  • flagging
  • forbidding
  • freeing
  • giving out
  • health-giving
  • heart-warming
  • impoverishing
  • inspiriting
  • invalidating
  • invigorating
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • lapsing
  • leaving off
  • lessening
  • letting up
  • lightening
  • liquidating
  • losing momentum
  • lowering
  • minimizing
  • mitigating
  • moderating
  • modifying
  • modulating
  • narrowing
  • negating
  • nicking
  • nullifying
  • nulling
  • outlawing
  • overriding
  • overruling
  • overturning
  • palling
  • paring
  • passing
  • phasing down
  • plummeting
  • plunging
  • prohibiting
  • pruning
  • qualifying
  • quashing
  • quieting
  • quitting
  • reassuring
  • recalling
  • receding
  • reducing
  • refreshing
  • rejecting
  • relaxing
  • relenting
  • relieving
  • remedying
  • remitting
  • removing
  • repealing
  • rescinding
  • restoring
  • retracting
  • retrenching
  • reversing
  • revitalizing
  • revivifying
  • revoking
  • rolling back
  • sagging
  • setting aside
  • settling
  • shortchanging
  • shortening
  • shrinking
  • shriveling up
  • sinking
  • slackening
  • slashing
  • sliding
  • slipping
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • softening
  • solacing
  • soothing
  • stopping
  • striking down
  • stripping
  • subsiding
  • subtracting
  • succoring
  • suspending
  • sustaining
  • taking off
  • tapering
  • tapering off
  • terminating
  • throwing out
  • toppling
  • tottering
  • tranquilizing
  • trimming
  • truncating
  • tumbling
  • upholding
  • vacating
  • vanishing
  • vetoing
  • voiding
  • waning
  • warming
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wearing down
  • wearing off
  • whittling
  • winding up
  • withdrawing
  • writing off

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