Synonyms for Trigger:

• adj.

  •trig (adjective)
  • spotless,
  • stylish,
  • in-thing,
  • methodical,
  • in vogue,
  • orderly,
  • genteel,
  • correct,
  • proper,
  • fastidious,
  • finical,
  • swanky,
  • latest thing,
  • last word,
  • trendsetting,
  • rakish,
  • prim,
  • systematic,
  • modish,
  • exact,
  • natty,
  • trim,
  • apple-pie order,
  • a go-go,
  • elegant,
  • customary,
  • newfangled,
  • up-to-the-minute,
  • current,
  • dainty,
  • accurate,
  • now,
  • all the rage,
  • trendy,
  • in good shape,
  • modern,
  • tidy,
  • dapper,
  • in good order,
  • new,
  • in style,
  • nice,
  • snug,
  • regular,
  • up to the minute,
  • taut,
  • shipshape,
  • contemporary,
  • popular,
  • usual,
  • immaculate,
  • sleek,
  • precise,
  • well-liked,
  • favored,
  • faddy,
  • dashing,
  • posh,
  • spick-and-span,
  • a la mode,
  • neat as a pin,
  • mod,
  • spruce,
  • chic,
  • prevailing,
  • swank,
  • well-groomed,
  • finicky,
  • well-kept,
  • with it.

• n.

  •
  • generate,
  • bring,
  • secure,
  • control,
  • occasion,
  • flash,
  • result in,
  • effect,
  • coax,
  • make,
  • engage,
  • lead to,
  • cause,
  • bring on,
  • eject,
  • flick.
  •
  • recall,
  • come to,
  • refresh someone's memory,
  • bring/call someone/something to mind,
  • jog someone's memory.
  •
  • chamber,
  • butt,
  • barrel,
  • caliber,
  • bore,
  • calibre,
  • clip,
  • hammer,
  • gauge.
  •
  • start-off,
  • form.
  •act (noun)
  • initiation,
  • induction.
  •causes (noun)
  • invitation,
  • mainspring,
  • impetus,
  • contributor,
  • root,
  • agent,
  • engine,
  • base,
  • influence,
  • culprit,
  • source.
  •gun trigger (noun)
  • gun trigger.
  •incitation (noun)
  • eye-openers,
  • propellant,
  • eye-opener,
  • propellants,
  • shot in the arm.
  •motive (noun)
  • magnetism,
  • propulsion,
  • prompting,
  • impulsion,
  • catalyst,
  • fermentation,
  • goading,
  • provocation,
  • fomentation,
  • motive,
  • enticement,
  • facilitation,
  • compulsion,
  • energy,
  • stimulation.
  •spur (noun)
  • turnon,
  • turn ons,
  • actuations,
  • turnons.
  •weapon (noun)
  • ordnance,
  • bow and arrow,
  • spear,
  • bazooka,
  • revolver,
  • blowpipe,
  • colt,
  • javelin,
  • machine gun,
  • carbine,
  • browning,
  • bomber,
  • winchester,
  • cutlass,
  • armament,
  • pistol,
  • shooter,
  • boomerang,
  • howitzer,
  • heater,
  • rifle,
  • blowgun,
  • arrow,
  • luger,
  • ammunition,
  • bullet,
  • lance,
  • Remington,
  • dagger,
  • sword,
  • missile,
  • Bilbo,
  • mace,
  • bayonet,
  • saber,
  • piece,
  • blunderbuss,
  • mortar,
  • battery,
  • club,
  • musket,
  • repeater,
  • peashooter,
  • scimitar,
  • gun,
  • weaponry,
  • shell,
  • stiletto,
  • muzzle,
  • claymore,
  • rocket,
  • broadsword,
  • flamethrower,
  • handgun,
  • knife,
  • cannon,
  • weapon,
  • rapier,
  • machete,
  • firearm,
  • ax,
  • artillery,
  • shotgun,
  • sidewinder.

• v.

  •activate (verb)
  • move,
  • impel,
  • turn on,
  • mobilize,
  • actuate,
  • propel,
  • arouse.
  •begin (verb)
  • go ahead,
  • DO,
  • break ground,
  • lay foundation for,
  • lead,
  • induce,
  • go into,
  • mount,
  • bring to pass,
  • make active,
  • enter upon,
  • open,
  • give birth to,
  • plunge into,
  • instigate,
  • prepare,
  • actualize,
  • break the ice,
  • drive,
  • embark on,
  • undertake,
  • set about,
  • eventuate,
  • originate,
  • enter on,
  • found,
  • launch,
  • get going,
  • give impulse.
  •effectuate (verb)
  • carries through,
  • carried through.
  •energize (verb)
  • quicken,
  • prime,
  • enliven,
  • start up,
  • vitalize,
  • electrify,
  • fortify,
  • inspirit,
  • pep up,
  • jazz up,
  • juice up,
  • liven up,
  • zap,
  • strengthen,
  • animate,
  • enable,
  • arm,
  • build up,
  • reinforce,
  • pump up,
  • put zip into,
  • innervate,
  • activize,
  • goose,
  • empower.
  •father (verb)
  • dream up,
  • conceive,
  • sow the seeds of,
  • engender,
  • procreate.
  •goad (verb)
  • press,
  • tease,
  • needle,
  • bully,
  • force,
  • encourage,
  • hound,
  • coerce,
  • lash,
  • annoy,
  • thrust,
  • sound,
  • worry,
  • irritate,
  • urge,
  • push,
  • harass.
  •incite (verb)
  • raise,
  • whip up,
  • prick,
  • craze,
  • taunt,
  • forward,
  • abet,
  • further,
  • promote,
  • solicit,
  • agitate,
  • persuade.
  •initiate (verb)
  • take in,
  • take up,
  • pioneer,
  • induct,
  • come out with,
  • admit,
  • invest,
  • enter,
  • make up,
  • install,
  • come up with.
  •inspire (verb)
  • in-fusing,
  • gives one idea,
  • in fusing,
  • commoves,
  • in-forming,
  • gives one an idea,
  • give idea,
  • in-spired,
  • in spire,
  • in spiring,
  • in spired,
  • re-assure,
  • give an idea,
  • are responsible for,
  • gave an idea,
  • in stilling,
  • wert responsible for,
  • re-assuring,
  • in-forms,
  • in-spire,
  • art responsible for,
  • in form,
  • re assured,
  • in-stilling,
  • giving one an idea,
  • in-spires,
  • in-spiring,
  • re-assures,
  • starting off,
  • giving one idea,
  • were responsible for,
  • gives an idea,
  • being responsible for,
  • in stilled,
  • gives idea,
  • giving impetus,
  • giving idea,
  • in-fused,
  • in fuse,
  • gave idea,
  • in forming,
  • in-fuse,
  • re assures,
  • re assure,
  • Commoved,
  • gave one an idea,
  • in-stilled,
  • in fuses,
  • in spires,
  • in fused,
  • give one idea,
  • in-fuses,
  • wast responsible for,
  • starts off,
  • gave impetus,
  • re-assured,
  • gave one idea,
  • am responsible for,
  • gives impetus,
  • giving an idea,
  • was responsible for,
  • in forms.
  •instate (verb)
  • in-states,
  • in-state,
  • in stating,
  • in-stating,
  • in states,
  • in stated,
  • in-stated,
  • in state.
  •invigorate (verb)
  • re-stored,
  • re-vitalizes,
  • re store,
  • re news,
  • re vitalizing,
  • re-fresh,
  • re vitalizes,
  • re stores,
  • re new,
  • re vitalized,
  • re freshes,
  • re stored,
  • re-vitalizing,
  • re-stores,
  • re-vitalized,
  • re-news,
  • re-freshes,
  • re-vitalize,
  • snapped up,
  • re-new,
  • snapping up,
  • re vitalize,
  • re-storing,
  • re storing.
  •motivate (verb)
  • poke,
  • jog,
  • bump,
  • throw,
  • hasten,
  • lob,
  • strike,
  • provoke,
  • sling,
  • magnetize,
  • punch,
  • fire,
  • knock,
  • jerk,
  • jostle,
  • entice,
  • pitch,
  • heave,
  • fling,
  • nudge,
  • ferment,
  • jolt,
  • ram,
  • hurtle,
  • hurl,
  • shove,
  • catapult.
  •precipitate (verb)
  • dis-patched,
  • dis charged,
  • letting fly,
  • dis patching,
  • dis patch,
  • dis-charges,
  • dis patches,
  • sends forth,
  • dis-charged,
  • dis-charging,
  • dis patched,
  • dis charging,
  • dis charges,
  • lets fly,
  • dis-patching,
  • speeds up,
  • sent forth,
  • dis-patch,
  • dis-patches,
  • dis charge,
  • dis-charge,
  • letted fly,
  • pushing forward.
  •prod (verb)
  • re mind,
  • jogs memory,
  • re-minded,
  • jogged memory,
  • re minding,
  • jogging memory,
  • re minds,
  • re-minding,
  • re-minds,
  • re-mind.
  •rouse (verb)
  • re doubled,
  • re double,
  • be stirred,
  • re-doubles,
  • re-double,
  • asking for it,
  • be stirring,
  • be-stirred,
  • making waves,
  • be-stirring,
  • be-stirs,
  • intensates,
  • re-doubled,
  • re doubling,
  • Intensated,
  • be stir,
  • Intensating,
  • asked for it,
  • re doubles,
  • re-doubling,
  • wakes up,
  • be-stir,
  • steams up,
  • be stirs,
  • asks for it.
  •shoot (verb)
  • picking off,
  • pulls trigger,
  • drops hammer,
  • picked off,
  • dropping hammer,
  • pulled trigger,
  • dropped hammer,
  • threw lead,
  • throws lead,
  • opens fire,
  • dropped the hammer,
  • picks off,
  • letting go with,
  • dropping the hammer,
  • throwing lead,
  • drops the hammer,
  • dropt the hammer,
  • lets go with,
  • opens up,
  • pulling trigger,
  • dropt hammer,
  • opened fire,
  • letted go with,
  • pulled the trigger,
  • pulls the trigger,
  • opening fire.
  •stimulate (verb)
  • getting one started,
  • dynamizing,
  • build fire under,
  • gotten started,
  • builds fire under,
  • gets one going,
  • gotten one started,
  • getting started,
  • gotten one going,
  • gets one started,
  • got one going,
  • building fire under,
  • gat started,
  • dynamizes,
  • gat one started,
  • builded fire under,
  • getting one going,
  • built a fire under,
  • builds a fire under,
  • gets started,
  • building a fire under,
  • gat one going,
  • got one started,
  • dynamized,
  • built fire under,
  • got started,
  • builded a fire under.
  •stir (verb)
  • feeding the fire,
  • stirred embers,
  • feeds the fire,
  • feeding fire,
  • adds fuel fire,
  • fed fire,
  • feed fire,
  • stirring embers,
  • fed the fire,
  • feeds fire,
  • adjies,
  • adjying,
  • adds fuel to fire,
  • adjied,
  • stirs embers.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • reawaken,
  • evoke,
  • drag up,
  • fashion,
  • commence,
  • invent,
  • expedite,
  • bring about,
  • Ingenerate,
  • effectuate,
  • scare up,
  • flood back,
  • rub in.
  •
  • excite,
  • egg on,
  • catalyze,
  • provide,
  • justify,
  • remind of,
  • improvise,
  • institute,
  • spawn,
  • inaugurate,
  • erect,
  • incitement,
  • phase,
  • stick with,
  • conjure up,
  • evolve,
  • contrive,
  • beget,
  • instigation.
  •
  • stimulus,
  • take back,
  • sustain,
  • pique,
  • awake,
  • galvanize,
  • mediate,
  • work up,
  • introduce,
  • suggest,
  • compose,
  • create,
  • bring back,
  • build,
  • spin off.
  •
  • will,
  • come back,
  • inflame.
  •
  • establish,
  • crowd,
  • warrant,
  • produce,
  • think.
  •
  • guarantee,
  • breed.
  •
  • send.
  •
  • go down.
  •
  • present,
  • get on.
  •
  • set up,
  • develop.
  •
  • put on,
  • mean,
  • work.
  •
  • have.
  •
  • set.
  •begin
  • gave birth to,
  • Originating,
  • occasions,
  • sets up,
  • inducing,
  • breaking ground,
  • originates,
  • founding,
  • getting going,
  • Instituting,
  • gives birth to,
  • got going,
  • went ahead.
  •effectuate
  • carrying through,
  • carry through.
  •energize
  • pumped up,
  • in spirits,
  • goosed,
  • pumping up,
  • started up,
  • goosing,
  • juiced up,
  • gooses.
  •father
  • Spawned.
  •invigorate
  • vivify,
  • snap up,
  • revitalize,
  • snaps up.
  •motivate
  • set afoot,
  • Innerve,
  • Innerving,
  • set astir,
  • touching off,
  • Innerved,
  • give incentive,
  • touch off.
  •Other relevant words:
  • put in motion,
  • erupt,
  • inception,
  • do battle,
  • helm,
  • advance,
  • operate,
  • facilitate,
  • take off,
  • trip,
  • cross swords,
  • go to war,
  • let go of,
  • knowledgeability,
  • annul,
  • installation,
  • trimmer,
  • sprucer,
  • sparer,
  • blade,
  • stumble,
  • instauration,
  • join battle,
  • detonator,
  • cry havoc,
  • treadle,
  • set going,
  • pinpoint,
  • touch,
  • kindle,
  • commencement,
  • set forth,
  • give battle,
  • start,
  • leave,
  • innovation,
  • generalisation,
  • tricker,
  • home in on,
  • elicitation,
  • map,
  • sparkle,
  • light,
  • accelerate,
  • hurry,
  • set out,
  • enkindle,
  • trig,
  • screwdriver,
  • inductive reasoning,
  • spark off,
  • heft,
  • knowledgeableness,
  • start out,
  • blaze the trail,
  • offset,
  • fall to,
  • origination,
  • spot,
  • set-off,
  • evocation,
  • enlist,
  • incentive,
  • blow up,
  • trigger off,
  • brighten up,
  • smarter,
  • jaunt,
  • take the field,
  • scan,
  • creation,
  • elicit,
  • contend,
  • bring out,
  • establishment,
  • trip up,
  • institution,
  • skidder,
  • travel,
  • foundation,
  • explode,
  • abrogate,
  • take up arms,
  • mounting,
  • light up,
  • get off,
  • enroll,
  • part,
  • release,
  • change,
  • generalization,
  • blasting machine,
  • throw away,
  • Clearer,
  • kick up,
  • detonate,
  • trip out,
  • introduction,
  • tiller,
  • shaft,
  • take the lead,
  • appeal to arms,
  • cancel,
  • inductance,
  • neater,
  • come to blows,
  • wage war,
  • identify,
  • battle with,
  • crammer,
  • ignite,
  • let go,
  • receive,
  • inducement,
  • key,
  • combat,
  • tidier,
  • haft,
  • depart,
  • sweep,
  • firing mechanism,
  • fight,
  • hilt,
  • speed,
  • aerate.

Paraphrases for Trigger:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    poses, casts, fuels.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    elicitation, Initiating, initiation, activator, fuze, recreation.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    initiate, generate, engender, entail, incite.
  • Verb, base form
    lay, induce, initiate, stimulate, arouse, instigate, generate, excite, actuate, encourage, energize, begin, inflict, engender, entail, reactivate, foster, fostering, implement, incite, operationalize, necessitate, foment, awaken, galvanize, jump-start.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    activate.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    precipitating, relaxation, stressor, catalyst, activate, detente, easing, impetus, unleashing.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    elicit, unleash, activate.
  • Verb, base form
    elicit, precipitate, unleash, wreak, detonate, kick-start, inflame, activate, propel.

Antonyms for Trigger:

• v.

  • activate
    arrest.
  • begin
    conclude, complete, finish, consummate, end.
  • cause to happen
    prevent, destroy.
  • energize
    tire, weaken, debilitate, sap, deactivate, weary.
  • father
    mother.
  • goad
    dissuade, discourage.
  • incite
    prohibit, delay, deter.
  • initiate
    terminate, close.
  • trigger
    block.
  • Other antonyms:
    stall, brake, stunt, draw up, stop, shut off, turn off, halt, decelerate, stick, repress, suppress, cut, check, jam, slow.

Hypernym for Trigger:

• n.

  • act
    instigation, fomentation.
  • artifact
    plutonium pit, plutonium trigger.

Hyponym for Trigger:

• n.

  • act
    causing, causation.
  • artifact
    device.