Synonyms of calling on

calling on

phrase

variants or calling upon

present participle of call on

1

as in standing on

to place reliance or trust

She's the one I call on when I need a friend.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• standing on
• relying
• looking to
• banking on
• depending
• figuring on
• trusting
• leaning
• counting
• calculating
• confiding
• reckoning
• intrusting
• committing
• entrusting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• questioning
• suspecting
• distrusting
• mistrusting

2

as in asking

to make a request of

She called on me for a ride to the airport.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• asking
• hitting (up)
• inviting
• requesting
• appealing (to)
• pleading (to)
• begging
• soliciting
• praying
• invoking
• requiring
• petitioning
• conjuring
• imploring
• beseeching
• demanding
• entreating
• supplicating
• importuning
• enjoining
• exacting
• pressing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• requiring
• forcing
• compelling
• constraining
• coercing
• obliging

3

as in appealing (to)

to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner

They called on a specialist after other avenues had failed.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appealing (to)
• petitioning
• pleading (to)
• begging
• requesting
• praying
• asking
• conjuring
• imploring
• beseeching
• impetrating
• entreating
• besieging
• soliciting
• supplicating
• importuning
• requiring
• invoking
• sponging
• suing
• desiring
• compelling
• forcing
• demanding
• insisting
• bludging
• claiming
• cadging
• coercing
• mooching
• commanding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• implying
• suggesting
• hinting
• intimating
• pleasing
• satisfying
• gratifying
• appeasing
• obliging
• comforting
• pacifying
• placating
• consoling
• quieting
• conciliating
• mollifying
• contenting