Synonyms of begetting

begetting 1 of 2

noun

as in procreation

Related Words

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

Dissimilar Words

• 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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of begetting

Verb

Nelson took 12 years to get the project made, and that labor-of-love aspect shows in the soulfulness and meticulous care the writer-director brings to this unsettling story of violence begetting violence, based on actual events. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

To remain an entertainment capital demands consistent reinvention, the showroom’s neon glow begetting the nightclub’s flashing LEDs and so on and so forth. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026

War begetting still more war, like some deranged biblical prophecy. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026

Men begetting men is the story, a kind of immaculate cultural reproduction. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026

The discovery, age five, that some people did not live in communities with all goods in common—that in fact for most, home was a locked building full of private property—begat questions still begetting questions at age thirteen. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025