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occasion - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: occasion
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make happen, bring about
Synonyms: breed, cause, create, do, effect, elicit, engender, evoke, generate, hatch, induce, influence, inspire, move, muster, originate, persuade, produce, prompt, provoke, work up, give rise to, lead to
Main Entry: occasion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chance
Synonyms: break*, convenience, demand, excuse, incident, instant, moment, need, occurrence, opening, opportunity, possibility, season, shot*, show, time, use
Main Entry: occasion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reason, cause
Synonyms: antecedent, basis, call, circumstance, excuse, foundation, ground, grounds, incident, inducement, influence, justification, motivation, motive, necessity, obligation, provocation, purpose, right, warrant, determinant, prompting
Main Entry: occasion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: event, happening
Synonyms: affair, celebration, circumstance, episode, experience, go*, happening, incident, instant, milestone, moment, occurrence, scene, thing*, time, while, goings-on, milepost
Concept Thesaurus
Synonyms:
-nouns
timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room; event (eventuality) [more]; suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness; tempestivity., crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture; crisis, turning point, given time., nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, open field, window of opportunity, fair field; mollia tempora; fata Morgana; spare time (leisure) [more].
-verbs
seize (take) [more] an opportunity, use [more] an opportunity, give [more] an opportunity, use an occasion; improve the occasion., suit the occasion (be expedient) [more]., seize the occasion, strike while the iron is hot, battre le fer sur l'enclume, make hay while the sun shines, seize the present hour, take time by the forelock, prendre la balle au bond.
-adjectives
opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful, seasonable., providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious, auspicious, critical; suitable [more]; obiter dicta.
-adverbs
opportunely; in proper course, in due course, in proper season, in due season, in proper time, in due time; for the nonce; in the nick of time, in the fullness of time; all in good time; just in time, at the eleventh hour, now or never., by the way, by the by; en passant, a propos; pro re nata, pro hac vice; par parenthese, parenthetically, by way of parenthesis, incidentally; while speaking of, while on the subject; extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; on the spot (early) [more].
-phrases
carpe diem, [Horace. "Seize the day" (Latin)]; occasionem cognosce ["Recognize the opportunity" (Latin)]; one's hour is come, the time is up; that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to think of it; bien perdu bien connu ["We only know what we have when we have lost it" (French)]; è sempre l'ora ["It is always the time" (Italian)]; ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius; nosce tempus ["Know the right time" (Latin)]; nunc aut
Antonyms: untimeliness
Main Entry: beget
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: create, bear
Synonyms: afford, breed, bring, bring about, cause, effect, engender, father, generate, get, multiply, occasion, procreate, produce, propagate, reproduce, sire, give rise to, progenerate, result in
Main Entry: bring about
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause success
Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, beget, bring to pass, compass, create, do, draw on, effect, engender, generate, manage, occasion, produce, realize, secure, succeed, effectuate, give rise to, make happen
Antonyms: halt, kill, stop
Main Entry: bring on
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: provoke
Synonyms: accelerate, advance, cause, expedite, generate, induce, inspire, occasion, precipitate, prompt, give rise to, lead to
Main Entry: call for
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: demand; entail
Synonyms: inquire, involve, lack, necessitate, need, occasion, request, require, suggest, want, ask for
Main Entry: cause
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring into being; bring about
Synonyms: begin, brainstorm*, break in*, break the ice*, breed, bring to pass, come out with*, compel, cook up*, create, dream up*, effect, elicit, engender, evoke, generate, hatch, incite, induce, introduce, kickoff*, kindle, let, make, make up, motivate, muster, occasion, open, originate, precipitate, produce, provoke, revert, secure, work up, be at the bottom of, fire up, get things rolling, give rise to, lead to, result in, sow the seeds, start the ball rolling, think up
Main Entry: circumstance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: situation, condition
Synonyms: Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at
Main Entry: contingency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: chance happening; possibility
Synonyms: accident, break, chance, crisis, crossroads, emergency, event, eventuality, exigency, fortuity, happening, if it's cool, incident, juncture, likelihood, occasion, odds, opportunity, pass, pinch, predicament, probability, strait, turning point, uncertainty, zero hour*
Antonyms: certainty, definiteness, reality, surety, truth
Main Entry: create
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: develop in mind or physically
Synonyms: actualize, author, beget, bring to pass, build, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start, bring into being, bring into existence, cause to be, give birth to, give life to
Antonyms: destroy, ruin
Main Entry: demand
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: question, request
Synonyms: appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation
Antonyms: grant, offer, reply
Main Entry: engender
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause to happen; cause an action
Synonyms: arouse, beget, breed, bring about, create, develop, excite, foment, generate, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, make, muster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, spawn, stimulate, stir, work up, bring forth, give birth to, give rise to, lead to
Antonyms: destroy, finish, halt, kill, stop
Main Entry: entail
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: require; result in
Synonyms: bring about, call for, cause, demand, encompass, entangle, evoke, impose, involve, necessitate, occasion, require, tangle, give rise to, lead to
Main Entry: episode
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: adventure; scene
Synonyms: affair, business, chapter, circumstance, doings, event, experience, goings-on, happening, incident, installment, interlude, matter, occasion, occurrence, part, passage, section, thing*, what's going down
Main Entry: fair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exposition, carnival
Synonyms: bazaar, celebration, display, exhibit, exhibition, festival, fete, gala, market, observance, occasion, pageant, show, spectacle, centennial, expo
Notes: a fair (noun) is a traveling show or carnival or a gathering of producers to promote business - fair (adjective) means free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception, or very pleasing to the eye, or not excessive or extreme; fare (noun) is the sum charged for transportation, or the food and drink that are regularly consumed - fare (verb) to get along or proceed
Main Entry: generate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: produce, create
Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring to pass, cause, develop, effect, engender, form, found, get up, hatch, inaugurate, induce, initiate, institute, introduce, make, multiply, muster, occasion, originate, parent, perform, procreate, propagate, provoke, reproduce, set up, spawn, whip up*, work up, give birth to, give rise to
Antonyms: break, destroy
Main Entry: happening
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: occurrence
Synonyms: accident, adventure, affair, case, chance, circumstance, episode, event, experience, go*, incident, milestone, occasion, phenomenon, proceeding, scene, thing*
Antonyms: method, plan, system
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