What is another word for trigger?
974 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ tɹˈɪɡə], [ tɹˈɪɡə], [ t_ɹ_ˈɪ_ɡ_ə]
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Similar words for trigger:
- trig (adjective)
- act (noun)
- causes (noun)
- gun trigger (noun)
- incitation (noun)
- motive (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- spur (noun)
- weapon (noun)
- activate (verb)
- begin (verb)
- effectuate (verb)
- energize (verb)
- father (verb)
- goad (verb)
- incite (verb)
- initiate (verb)
- inspire (verb)
- instate (verb)
- invigorate (verb)
- motivate (verb)
- precipitate (verb)
- prod (verb)
- rouse (verb)
- shoot (verb)
- stimulate (verb)
- stir (verb)
- other synonyms
- begin
- effectuate
- energize
- father
- invigorate
- motivate
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
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.
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- generate,
- bring,
- secure,
- control,
- occasion,
- flash,
- result in,
- effect,
- coax,
- make,
- engage,
- lead to,
- cause,
- bring on,
- eject,
- flick.
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- recall,
- come to,
- refresh someone's memory,
- bring/call someone/something to mind,
- jog someone's memory.
- invitation,
- mainspring,
- impetus,
- contributor,
- root,
- agent,
- engine,
- base,
- influence,
- culprit,
- source.
- magnetism,
- propulsion,
- prompting,
- impulsion,
- catalyst,
- fermentation,
- goading,
- provocation,
- fomentation,
- motive,
- enticement,
- facilitation,
- compulsion,
- energy,
- stimulation.
- spur,
- lever,
- knob,
- turn-ons,
- doorknob,
- activations,
- causation,
- excitant,
- excitants,
- opener,
- Geese,
- causing,
- incitation,
- openers,
- actuation,
- device,
- Knurl,
- activation,
- turn-on,
- doorknobs,
- knurls.
- 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) • 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.
- 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.
- press,
- tease,
- needle,
- bully,
- force,
- encourage,
- hound,
- coerce,
- lash,
- annoy,
- thrust,
- sound,
- worry,
- irritate,
- urge,
- push,
- harass.
- take in,
- take up,
- pioneer,
- induct,
- come out with,
- admit,
- invest,
- enter,
- make up,
- install,
- come up with.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- re mind,
- jogs memory,
- re-minded,
- jogged memory,
- re minding,
- jogging memory,
- re minds,
- re-minding,
- re-minds,
- re-mind.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Other synonyms:
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- reawaken,
- evoke,
- drag up,
- fashion,
- commence,
- invent,
- expedite,
- bring about,
- Ingenerate,
- effectuate,
- scare up,
- flood back,
- rub in.
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- excite,
- egg on,
- catalyze,
- provide,
- justify,
- remind of,
- improvise,
- institute,
- spawn,
- inaugurate,
- erect,
- incitement,
- phase,
- stick with,
- conjure up,
- evolve,
- contrive,
- beget,
- instigation.
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- stimulus,
- take back,
- sustain,
- pique,
- awake,
- galvanize,
- mediate,
- work up,
- introduce,
- suggest,
- compose,
- create,
- bring back,
- build,
- spin off.
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- send.
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- go down.
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- have.
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- set.
- gave birth to,
- Originating,
- occasions,
- sets up,
- inducing,
- breaking ground,
- originates,
- founding,
- getting going,
- Instituting,
- gives birth to,
- got going,
- went ahead.
- Perking,
- build a fire under,
- opened up,
- let go with,
- inspires,
- energize,
- jog memory,
- Rowelling,
- Rowelled,
- prod,
- bestir,
- put to,
- pulling the trigger,
- opening up,
- gets to,
- Instate,
- SICS,
- getting to,
- come with,
- juiced,
- juicing,
- in flames,
- perked,
- switch on,
- moves,
- start off,
- get one started,
- set in motion,
- stimulate,
- stir,
- pushed forward,
- calls up,
- drop hammer,
- speeding up,
- incite,
- initiate,
- bestirs,
- spark,
- fire up,
- fan the fire,
- turning on,
- rowel,
- PSYCH,
- Roweled,
- feed the fire,
- activate,
- open up,
- Gunning,
- waking up,
- Bestirred,
- waked up,
- ask for it,
- stir embers,
- torpedoing,
- Bestirring,
- inspired,
- sicked,
- impelled,
- rouse,
- switching on,
- give impetus,
- torpedo,
- psychs,
- make waves,
- called up,
- kick off,
- setting in motion,
- keyed up,
- give rise to,
- father,
- key up,
- triggers,
- give one an idea,
- sicced,
- jazzing,
- Spiriting,
- pull the trigger,
- speed up,
- woke up,
- prompt,
- ushers in,
- woken,
- kicked off,
- begin,
- sic,
- rowels,
- speeded up,
- precipitate,
- Intensate,
- motivate,
- push forward,
- psyching,
- steaming up,
- Initiating,
- setting off,
- Roweling,
- get to,
- foment,
- infect,
- exhort,
- torpedoed,
- stirs up,
- get one going,
- send forth,
- remind,
- calling up,
- get ball rolling,
- Commoving,
- sets in motion,
- barraged,
- switched on,
- adjy,
- stirred up,
- intro,
- dynamize,
- get started,
- infuse,
- started off,
- jazzed,
- getting under way,
- get under way,
- put up to,
- steam up,
- trigger,
- take out of mothballs,
- sped up,
- talk into,
- pull trigger,
- makes waves,
- catapulting,
- drop the hammer,
- triggering,
- pick off,
- open fire,
- be responsible for,
- wake up,
- pushes forward,
- steamed up,
- catapulted,
- barraging,
- usher in,
- shoot,
- stir up,
- throw lead,
- is responsible for,
- got to,
- commove,
- stirring up,
- gives rise to,
- ushering in,
- sicking,
- Torpedoes,
- actify,
- inspire,
- call up,
- let fly,
- fires up,
- goad,
- giving rise to,
- invigorate,
- gunned,
- sending forth,
- get feet wet,
- rousing,
- set off.
- 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:
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
activator, elicitation, fuze, initiation, recreation, Initiating.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
activate.
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Noun, singular or mass
activate, catalyst, detente, easing, impetus, precipitating, relaxation, stressor, unleashing.
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Verb, base form
activate, detonate, elicit, inflame, precipitate, propel, unleash, wreak, kick-start.
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Proper noun, singular
Hypernym for Trigger:
n.
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act
instigation, fomentation.
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artifact
plutonium pit, plutonium trigger.
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act
Hyponym for Trigger:
Word of the Day
puts money ones pocket
- Synonyms:
- clean up, feather one's nest, strike it rich, make a fortune, get rich, make a bundle, coin money, fill one's pockets, have one's ship come in, have the golden touch.
