CALLED Synonyms: 282 Similar and Opposite Words

called

verb

Definition of called next

past tense of call

as in shouted

to speak so as to be heard at a distance we could hear someone calling for help from the other side of the wall

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as in dialed

to make a telephone call to use this cell phone to call me if there's an emergency

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as in visited

to make a brief visit the hospital posts the hours during which friends and relatives may call

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as in canceled

to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to) the game was called on account of rain

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as in considered

to think of in a particular way I wouldn't quite call that cheating, but it's not entirely ethical either

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as in cried

to utter one's distinctive animal sound the dog called whenever it flushed a quail

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sang

as in summoned

to bring together in assembly by or as if by command called all the night workers in for a meeting

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as in estimated

to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement let's call that five feet for now, and we'll measure it out later

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as in asked

to demand or request the presence or service of rushed to call a tow truck operator when the car broke down

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as in dubbed

to give a name to we've decided to call the kitten "Molly"

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as in ordered

to request the doing of by virtue of one's authority the union president is refusing to call a strike

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as in predicted

to tell of or describe beforehand somehow the political pundit called the race results within a mere percentage point

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Recent Examples of called In December of that year, a group subsequently called the Paxton Boys murdered six individuals there, setting fire to their homes in the early dawn of a snowy day Another fourteen residents had been away at the time. —

Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 Ferrari — Shares of the Italian luxury carmarker fell 3% after Ferrari launched its first fully electric vehicle , called Luce, at a venue in Rome. —

Sarah Min, CNBC, 26 May 2026 Contemporary reviewers called the car one of the most desirable and affordable sports cars on the market. —

Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 25 May 2026 Hulled sunflower seed—also called sunflower hearts or chips—is more expensive (often double the price of unhulled seed), but the birds love it. —

Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2026 Using a global health research network called TriNetX containing data from more than 145 million patient records, the researchers found data from people with cancer who started GLP-1 receptor agonists after their diagnosis. —

Victoria Forster, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026 Wahl added in the later news conference that the mother of one suspect called police hours before the shooting. —

James Powel, USA Today, 19 May 2026 Last year, the chancellor of the Peralta Community College District, a network of four schools that includes Merritt, proposed a merger with nearby Laney College to create something called Oakland City College. —

Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 19 May 2026 Goldschmied opens his first store called The King’s in the ritzy Italian skiing resort Cortina d’Ampezzo. —

Maria Cristina Pavarini, Footwear News, 18 May 2026

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Video shows immigration authorities shoving a woman through a line of masked and armed guards and threatening to deploy pepper spray as protesters shouted at the agents.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
Goldberg shouted with her arms outstretched.

— Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026