leadership

The word “leadership” has 3 syllables: lead-er-ship

It's pronounced as /ˈliː.dɚ.ʃɪp/


What is synonym and antonym for leadership?

In the thesaurus, “leadership” has 53 synonyms and 6 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for leadership

  • administration
  • aegis
  • auspices
  • authority
  • captaincy
  • captainship
  • care
  • charge
  • coaching
  • command
  • control
  • direction
  • directorship
  • domination
  • dominion
  • egis
  • encouragement
  • generalship
  • governance
  • government
  • guardianship
  • guidance
  • headship
  • influence
  • initiative
  • lead
  • management
  • monitoring
  • navigation
  • observance
  • observation
  • observing
  • overseeing
  • oversight
  • pilotage
  • piloting
  • policing
  • power
  • protection
  • regulation
  • reign
  • rule
  • running
  • shepherding
  • steering
  • stewardship
  • superintendence
  • superintendency
  • supervision
  • surveillance
  • sway
  • trusteeship
  • tutelage

Antonyms for leadership

Meanings of leadership

  • noun
    1. The capacity of someone to lead others.
    2. A group of leaders.
    3. The office or status of a leader.

Example Sentences

  • Her strong leadership helped guide the team through difficult times.
  • The company is looking for someone with proven leadership skills.
  • Effective leadership requires clear communication and empathy.
  • His leadership style encourages innovation and collaboration.
  • The club flourished under her leadership.

On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to leadership, such as: administration, aegis, auspices, authority, captaincy, captainship, care.

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

Related Words

observing

handling

  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • acquiescing
  • addressing
  • administering
  • administrating
  • administration
  • aegis
  • agency
  • allowing
  • approach
  • bearing
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  • bossing
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • capitulating
  • captaining
  • care
  • carrying off
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • charge
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • coadministration
  • codirecting
  • codirection
  • comanagement
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  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • conduct
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  • considering
  • control
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  • countenancing
  • custody
  • directing
  • direction
  • doing by
  • driving
  • egis
  • enduring
  • engineering
  • esteeming
  • fielding
  • finessing
  • generalship
  • getting off
  • going
  • governance
  • governing
  • government
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guidance
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  • hacking
  • having a grip on
  • heading
  • intendance
  • jockeying
  • keeping
  • lap
  • leadership
  • leading
  • living with
  • logistics
  • machination
  • management
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  • manipulating
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  • meeting
  • micromanaging
  • minding
  • monitoring
  • negotiating
  • operating
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  • ordering
  • overlooking
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  • oversight
  • permitting
  • piloting
  • playing
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  • pocketing
  • presidency
  • protecting
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  • pulling
  • quarterbacking
  • rating
  • reckoning
  • regarding
  • regulating
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  • reigning
  • respecting
  • riding herd on
  • rulership
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • safekeeping
  • serving
  • shepherding
  • showing
  • stage-managing
  • standing
  • standing for
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stewardship
  • sticking out
  • stomaching
  • styling
  • suffering
  • superintendence
  • superintendency
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • swinging
  • taking
  • tending
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • treating
  • treatment
  • trust
  • tutelage
  • using
  • viewing
  • ward
  • watching
  • watching over
  • wearing
  • wielding
  • working

generalship

  • administration
  • aegis
  • approach
  • auspices
  • authority
  • campaign
  • captaincy
  • captainship
  • care
  • channels
  • charge
  • coaching
  • command
  • control
  • course
  • defense
  • device
  • direction
  • directorship
  • disposition
  • domination
  • dominion
  • egis
  • encouragement
  • governance
  • government
  • guardianship
  • guidance
  • headship
  • influence
  • initiative
  • lead
  • leadership
  • line
  • management
  • maneuver
  • maneuvering
  • means
  • method
  • monitoring
  • move
  • navigation
  • observance
  • observation
  • observing
  • overseeing
  • oversight
  • pilotage
  • piloting
  • plan
  • plan of attack
  • ploy
  • policing
  • policy
  • power
  • procedure
  • protection
  • red tape
  • regulation
  • reign
  • rule
  • running
  • scheme
  • shepherding
  • steering
  • stewardship
  • stratagem
  • superintendence
  • superintendency
  • supervision
  • surveillance
  • sway
  • system
  • tack
  • technique
  • trick
  • trusteeship
  • tutelage
  • way

imperium

  • arm
  • ascendance
  • ascendancy
  • ascendence
  • ascendency
  • authority
  • authorization
  • birthright
  • choke hold
  • clout
  • clutch
  • command
  • connection
  • control
  • diadem
  • direction
  • dominance
  • domination
  • dominion
  • eminence
  • global force
  • grip
  • hegemony
  • hold
  • importance
  • influence
  • inside track
  • jurisdiction
  • law
  • leadership
  • license
  • lordship
  • management
  • mastery
  • might
  • moment
  • moxie
  • omnipotence
  • paramountcy
  • powerful nation
  • predominance
  • predominancy
  • preeminence
  • prerogative
  • prestige
  • primacy
  • privilege
  • pull
  • regency
  • reign
  • right
  • rule
  • say-so
  • scepter
  • sovereignty
  • sovranty
  • steam
  • strength
  • strings
  • superiority
  • superpower
  • supremacy
  • sway
  • takeover
  • warrant
  • weight
  • wire

lead

  • accompany
  • advance
  • advantage
  • advice
  • advisement
  • affect
  • ahead
  • allusion
  • altitude
  • announce
  • answer
  • area
  • ascendant
  • ascendent
  • assistance
  • attend
  • augury
  • be ahead
  • be responsible for
  • bear
  • berth
  • blaze a trail
  • blueprint
  • boss
  • breadth
  • breath
  • brief
  • bring
  • bulge
  • call the shots
  • captain
  • cast
  • cause
  • caution
  • cautioning
  • chaperon
  • chaperone
  • chief
  • clearance
  • clue
  • coach
  • coerce
  • come first
  • command
  • commanding
  • compel
  • conduce
  • conduct
  • control
  • controlling
  • convey
  • convoy
  • coordinate
  • coprincipal
  • costar
  • counsel
  • course
  • cross
  • cue
  • cultivate
  • cut
  • cutting edge
  • denotation
  • depth
  • direct
  • directing
  • direction
  • distance
  • dominant
  • dominate
  • drill
  • drive
  • drop
  • edge
  • encourage
  • engineer
  • enlighten
  • escort
  • evidence
  • example
  • exceed
  • excel
  • excite
  • exemplar
  • extend
  • extension
  • extent
  • facade
  • fall
  • feedback
  • feeling
  • find a way
  • first
  • flicker
  • flight
  • follow
  • force
  • foreboding
  • foremost
  • foreshadower
  • foretaste
  • foster
  • front rank
  • galvanize
  • get
  • glimmer
  • glimpse
  • go
  • go along with
  • go out in front
  • godfather
  • govern
  • grand
  • guard
  • guidance
  • guide
  • guidepost
  • handle
  • harbinger
  • haul
  • head
  • headliner
  • hearten
  • height
  • helm
  • herald
  • high
  • high-level
  • hint
  • hunch
  • idea
  • ideal
  • impel
  • implication
  • in charge
  • incline
  • inculcate
  • indication
  • indoctrinate
  • induce
  • inference
  • influence
  • inform
  • ingenue
  • inkling
  • innuendo
  • insinuation
  • inspiration
  • inspire
  • instill
  • instruct
  • instruction
  • intimation
  • introduce
  • intuition
  • key
  • leadership
  • leading
  • leading lady
  • leading man
  • length
  • lie
  • main
  • major
  • manage
  • managing
  • margin
  • mark
  • marshal
  • marshall
  • mention
  • mentor
  • model
  • motivate
  • move
  • nod
  • notion
  • nurture
  • observation
  • officiating
  • omen
  • outdo
  • outstrip
  • over
  • oversee
  • overseeing
  • overtone
  • paradigm
  • paramount
  • pass
  • pass along
  • pattern
  • persuade
  • pilot
  • point
  • point out
  • point the way
  • pointer
  • portent
  • precede
  • precedence
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  • predominant
  • predominate
  • preeminent
  • preface
  • prefigurement
  • premier
  • premonition
  • presage
  • presentiment
  • preside over
  • presiding
  • prevail
  • primacy
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  • priority
  • prompt
  • proof
  • protect
  • quarterback
  • range
  • reach
  • recommendation
  • regnant
  • regulate
  • reigning
  • reminder
  • remove
  • rise
  • route
  • ruling
  • run
  • run things
  • safeguard
  • scent
  • school
  • scope
  • see
  • senior
  • serve
  • shepherd
  • shot
  • show
  • show around
  • show in
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  • sign
  • signal
  • solution
  • sovereign
  • sovran
  • space
  • spacing
  • span
  • spark
  • spearhead
  • spread
  • spur
  • squire
  • standard
  • star
  • star turn
  • starlet
  • start
  • steer
  • stretch
  • suggestion
  • supereminent
  • superintend
  • superior
  • superstar
  • supervise
  • supervisory
  • supremacy
  • supreme
  • surpass
  • suspicion
  • sway
  • sweep
  • symptom
  • teach
  • telltale
  • template
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  • tip
  • tip-off
  • title role
  • token
  • top
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  • trace
  • trail-blaze
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  • upmost
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  • urging
  • usher
  • vanguard
  • volume
  • walk through
  • warning
  • watch over
  • way
  • whiff
  • width
  • wind
  • wink

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