Cause

Noun

 * 1) The source or reason of an event or action
 * 2) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.

Verb

 * 1) To set off an event or action.
 * 2) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.

Adjectives for Cause

 * (agent or reason) abundant; scattered (plural); obnoxious; specific; proximate; predisposing; pressing; apparent; fundamental; hopeless; unavoidable; immediate; prolific; duplicating; rational; dreadful;  effective;  underlying; mighty; noble; just; sacred; worthy; legitimate; endless; redeeming; supernatural: spectacular; apparent; assignable; faltering; secondary; physical; universal; growing; innocent; predominant; remote; unknown; scandalous; sensational; plausible; permanent;   transient;  fatal;  potential; weighty; assignable; prominent; internal; erroneous; contributory; subjective; temperance; amorous; glorious; breaking; eternal; ultimate; paramount; unconscious; frequent; princely; philosophical; natural; mistaken; malignant; alleged; latent; discreditable; recorded; celebrated; sordid; economic; primeval; mitigating; constitutional; sensible; ennobling; determining; mechanical; infallible; propelling; hated; secondary; obvious; habitual; minute; idiotic; antecedent; justifiable; primal; creative; irritating; efficient; unkind; notable; unwitting; extraneous; lawful; unaccountable; identical; exciting; worthy; immoral; functional; vanquished; multifarious (plural) ; impious; trivial; sublunary; artificial; ridiculous; everlasting; similar; righteous.
 * (aim, principle, movement) adopted; alien; championed; espoused; glorious; lost; noble; sacred; undying.

Verbs for Cause

 * (agent or reason) acquaint with—; advance—; allege—; appraise—; approach—; ascertain—; ascribe—to; assign—; attach—; attribute—to; concern with—; cure—; deal with—; debate—; declare—; define—; demonstrate—; determine—; discover—; display—; dwell upon —; eliminate—; eradicate—; estimate—; explain—; fathom—; inquire into—; judge —; laugh at—; obliterate—; obviate—; overcome—; perceive—; procure—; regard —; relieve—; remand—; remove—; report —; reveal—; reverse—; rue—; seek—; serve as—; state—; strike at—; suggest—; surmise—; suspect—; trace—to; weigh—; —prevails; —resides in.
 * (aim, principle, movement) adopt—; advocate—; approve—; betray—; bolster—; bow to—; champion—; cleave to —; contribute to—; defame—; desert—; devote to—; die for—; do ill to—; embrace -; encourage—; engage in—; enlist in— espouse—; favor—; forsake—; further— guide—; harm—; injure—; interpret— justify—; labor for—; maintain—; misinterpret—; pay tribute to—; persecute— plead— praise—; promote—; rally to— scorn— serve—; speak for—; sponsor— spurn— struggle for—; suffer for—; sunder—; support—; transgress—; tread—under foot; unbraid—; vindicate—; with¬draw from—; —perishes; —prospers; — suffers; —triumphs.

Adverbs for Cause
inadvertently; noxiously; specifically; fundamentally; apparently; unavoidably; rationally; legitimately; supernaturally; spectacularly; physically; universally; predominantly; fatally; potentially;  subjectively; eternally; ultimately; philosophically; malignantly; allegedly; mechanically; infallibly; unaccountably; artificially; righteously.

Synonyms for Cause

 * reason, source
 * agent, origin, spring, causation, fountain, designer, antecedent, originator, object, inducement, condition.

Derived terms

 * because
 * causal


 * causality
 * causative


 * cause celebre
 * for cause
 * causation

Thesaurus
impel, impulse, inaugurate, incentive, induce, inducement, industrialize, inspiration, inspire, institute, intention, interest, issue, judicial process, justification, lawsuit, lead to, legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, lifework, litigation, lodestar, mainspring, make, mass movement, mass-produce, material basis, matter, motivate, motive, movement, muster up, necessity, obligation, occasion, origin, originate, originator, overproduce, perform, precipitate, prime mover, principle, proceedings, produce, producer, promote, prompt, prosecution, provoke, realize, reason, reason for being, restrain, right, root, sake, score, secure, set afloat, set on foot, set up, sire, source, spring, substance, suit, suit at law, summon up, tie, ulterior motive, undertaking, use force upon, vocation, volume-produce, warrant, work, work up, accomplish, achieve, act, action, activity, agency, agent, ambition, antecedent, aspiration, author, basis, be productive, bear, beget, belief, bind, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring on, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to pass, call, call forth, call up, calling, campaign, case, cause in court, cause to, commitment, compel, conceive, concern, consideration, constrain, create, creator, crusade, determinant, do, draw on, drive, effect, effectuate, elicit, enforce, engender, engineer, establish, evoke, execute, faith, father, force, found, foundation, generate, generator, genesis, gestate, get up, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, goad, goal, good reason, great cause, ground, grounds, guiding light, guiding star, hatch, have, ideal,

Etymology
From cause: from  cause: from  causa:, in  also "a thing". Origin uncertain. See accuse, excuse. Displaced native sake "cause, reason" (from  sacu "cause"),  andweorc, andwork "matter, cause" (from  andweorc "matter, thing, cause").

Pronunciation

 * ; cores
 * ; cores
 * ; cores
 * ; cores

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian: պատճառ (patč̣aṙ)
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: causa
 * Chinese:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Haitian Creole:


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 원인
 * Latvian: iemesls, cēlonis
 * Lithuanian: priežastis, pagrindas
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian: razlog, uzrok
 * Slovene: vzrok, razlog
 * Spanish: causa
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: кауза
 * Catalan: causa
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: ajend
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (skopós)


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian: stvar, princip
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: causa

Verb

 * Arabic: تسبب
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:, ,  ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:


 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: igar, efektigar
 * Japanese: 原因となる, 引き起こす
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cauza, pricinui
 * Russian:, производить, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: povzročiti
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: предизвиквам
 * Dutch:
 * Latin: creo


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Welsh:

Anagrams

 * sauce

Etymology
Borrowed from classical causa:. Compare chose:.

Noun

 * 1) cause
 * 2) case (a legal proceeding)

Derived terms

 * à cause de

Verb
cause


 * 1) Third person singular indicative of causer

Anagrams

 * sauce
 * sceau

Noun
cause



Etymology
cause:

Noun

 * 1) * 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
 * He knew the cause of everich maladye
 * He knew the cause of every illness
 * He knew the cause of every illness

Verb
cause