Synonyms of begetting

begetting 1 of 2

noun

as in procreation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• procreation
• breeding
• spawning
• generation
• siring
• conception
• pregnancy
• gestation
• family way
• gravidity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• infertility
• barrenness

begetting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of beget

1

as in creating

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

one change in the natural environment will beget others

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creating
• causing
• bringing
• generating
• prompting
• spawning
• producing
• doing
• working
• inducing
• yielding
• invoking
• effecting
• making
• breeding
• engendering
• bringing about
• occasioning
• giving rise to
• catalyzing
• resulting (in)
• drawing on
• translating (into)
• effectuating
• introducing
• promoting
• encouraging
• bringing on
• bringing forth
• establishing
• contributing (to)
• inaugurating
• initiating
• developing
• fostering
• beginning
• launching
• founding
• determining
• cultivating
• starting
• instituting
• fathering
• nurturing
• pioneering
• enacting
• deciding
• furthering
• rendering
• forwarding
• conducing (to)
• advancing
• innovating
• setting up
• nourishing
• setting
• turning out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• limiting
• restricting
• impeding
• suppressing
• controlling
• crushing
• subduing
• stifling
• repressing
• smothering
• checking
• restraining
• inhibiting
• killing
• retarding
• quashing
• dampening
• curbing
• quelling
• arresting
• putting down
• destroying
• squelching
• squashing
• abolishing
• extinguishing
• quenching
• cracking down (on)
• liquidating
• clamping down (on)
• canning
• demolishing
• reining (in)
• stilling
• snuffing (out)

2

as in siring

to become the father of

the racehorse begot several Kentucky Derby winners

Synonyms & Similar Words

• siring
• producing
• spawning
• fathering
• reproducing
• getting
• multiplying
• generating
• propagating
• procreating
• engendering
• bearing
• gendering