356 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ˈɔːt], [ ˈɔːt], [ ˈɔː_t]

Related words: should, ought to, should I, should you, should we, should I do that, should you do that, should we do that, should I say that, should you say that, should we say that

Similar words for ought:

• charge (noun)
• commitment (noun)
• duty (noun)
• had better (noun)
• must (noun)
• need (noun)
• obligation (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• zero (noun)
• have (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "ought" in context?

Paraphrases for ought

Homophones for ought

Synonyms for Ought:

• n.

  •
  • can,
  • may,
  • used to,
  • could,
  • might.
  • charge (noun)
  • obligation,
  • responsibility,
  • right,
  • concern,
  • task,
  • tax,
  • weight,
  • care,
  • trust,
  • office,
  • ward,
  • custody,
  • need,
  • safekeeping,
  • onus.
  • commitment (noun)
  • guarantee,
  • engagement,
  • liability,
  • pledge,
  • vow,
  • word,
  • promise,
  • undertaking.
  • duty (noun)
  • hook,
  • work,
  • job,
  • string,
  • occupation,
  • contract,
  • load,
  • minding the store,
  • commission,
  • role,
  • province,
  • business,
  • chore,
  • mission,
  • trouble,
  • taking care of business,
  • DUES,
  • service,
  • function,
  • part,
  • pains,
  • station,
  • calling,
  • burden.
  • had better (noun)
  • had better.
  • must (noun)
  • imperative,
  • condition,
  • precondition,
  • prerequisite,
  • fundamental,
  • requirement,
  • sine qua non,
  • necessary,
  • requisite.
  • need (noun)
  • exigency,
  • urgency,
  • wish,
  • occasion,
  • essential,
  • weakness,
  • compulsion,
  • use,
  • longing,
  • extremity,
  • demand.
  • obligation (noun)
  • chit,
  • iou,
  • due bill,
  • debit,
  • cause,
  • understanding,
  • agreement,
  • restraint,
  • constraint,
  • conscience,
  • bond.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • millstone,
  • pre-conditions,
  • must,
  • deadweights,
  • Desiderata,
  • duty,
  • needs,
  • pre-requisites,
  • devoir,
  • oughts,
  • prerequisites,
  • commitment,
  • desideratum,
  • zero,
  • devoirs,
  • the urge,
  • pre-requisite,
  • deadweight,
  • liabilities,
  • imperatives,
  • Necessaries,
  • committals,
  • committal,
  • charge.
  • zero (noun)
  • nadir,
  • rock bottom,
  • ZOT,
  • shutouts,
  • nobody,
  • cipher,
  • nada,
  • noughts,
  • oblivion,
  • bottom,
  • nullity,
  • blank,
  • Insignificancy,
  • lowest point,
  • void,
  • naughts,
  • scratch,
  • shutout.

• v.

  • have (verb)
  • experience,
  • undergo,
  • leave,
  • enjoy,
  • feel,
  • know,
  • entertain,
  • consider,
  • permit,
  • tolerate,
  • let,
  • suffer,
  • sustain,
  • allow,
  • become,
  • see.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Cannot.
  •
  • would.
  •
  • will.
  • Other relevant words:
  • thinks about,
  • fell on,
  • met with,
  • oughted,
  • be forced to,
  • thinking about,
  • shoulded,
  • be coming,
  • be compelled to,
  • Experiencing,
  • Having,
  • put up with,
  • resting with,
  • meet with,
  • oughting,
  • putting up with,
  • put with,
  • should,
  • be one's duty to,
  • rest with,
  • thought about,
  • shoulding,
  • think about,
  • fall on,
  • be up to.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • efficient,
  • love,
  • hold,
  • probably,
  • table tennis,
  • justifiably,
  • wrong,
  • fitness,
  • clever,
  • malum in se,
  • goose egg,
  • arrive at,
  • nihil,
  • call for,
  • essentially,
  • need to,
  • client,
  • requires,
  • prepared,
  • maybe,
  • worthily,
  • want,
  • comely,
  • dexterous,
  • applicable,
  • collapse,
  • naught,
  • OWES,
  • deservedly,
  • desirable,
  • gain,
  • legal,
  • nonentity,
  • combat,
  • proportionate,
  • useful,
  • suitable,
  • clearly,
  • nothing,
  • zilch,
  • respond,
  • gravity,
  • shall,
  • respect,
  • as good as,
  • amenable,
  • rightfully,
  • inevitably,
  • shame,
  • in time,
  • Rights,
  • fealty,
  • quite,
  • receive,
  • pawn,
  • accusation,
  • convenient,
  • contain,
  • congenial,
  • necessitates,
  • having to,
  • proper,
  • have got,
  • debt,
  • rather,
  • accountability,
  • good,
  • answer,
  • account,
  • battle,
  • be required to,
  • rightful,
  • allegiance,
  • compel,
  • Zeros,
  • attack,
  • Anything,
  • necessitate,
  • unreasonableness,
  • lawful,
  • take,
  • destruction,
  • owned,
  • ever,
  • Accountableness,
  • loyalty,
  • require,
  • homage,
  • justly,
  • ask,
  • fit,
  • any,
  • nichts,
  • owed,
  • favourable,
  • pertinent,
  • appointment,
  • have to,
  • call,
  • zip,
  • when,
  • bill,
  • bounden duty,
  • necessity,
  • perhaps,
  • disaster,
  • apposite,
  • involves,
  • possibly,
  • etc,
  • evidently,
  • listen to,
  • on time,
  • possessed,
  • compatible,
  • eligible,
  • be obligated to,
  • comfortable,
  • obviously,
  • tennis,
  • as if,
  • ethics,
  • ciphers,
  • asks,
  • go to,
  • wants,
  • Charges,
  • ostensibly,
  • apparently,
  • Oughtness,
  • devotion,
  • During,
  • patently,
  • ought to,
  • nought,
  • plainly,
  • nix,
  • command,
  • deference,
  • duly,
  • able,
  • permitted,
  • admit,
  • effectual,
  • adapted,
  • equal to,
  • Nils,
  • grievance,
  • rightly,
  • capable,
  • owe,
  • act as,
  • be,
  • shoud,
  • apt,
  • presumably,
  • urgent,
  • competent,
  • importance,
  • admissible,
  • call of duty,
  • acceptable,
  • involve,
  • have got to,
  • nil,
  • greatness,
  • aught,
  • necessarily,
  • advisable,
  • place,
  • no matter what,
  • moral obligation,
  • adequate,
  • behoove,
  • constrain,
  • legitimate,
  • ruin,
  • justifiable,
  • dedication,
  • failure,
  • accept,
  • demands,
  • seemingly,
  • manifestly,
  • be obliged to,
  • such as.

How to use "Ought" in context?

Paraphrases for Ought:

• Equivalence

  • Modal
    should.

• Independent

  • Modal
    could, might, must, shall, would, GOTTA, 'd.

• Other Related

  • Modal
    OUGHTA.

Homophones for Ought:

• Ot.