Cause
Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.
Usage example: the much-debated causes of the American Civil War
Issue
Issue noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Usage example: one of the issues of the Civil War was a resolution to the question of states' rights
Cause is an antonym for issue in topics: children, distribution, result, point in question, edition of publication.
How words are described
| old | old cause | old issue |
| particular | particular cause | particular issue |
| common | common cause | common issue |
| original | original cause | original issue |
| Other adjectives: single, obvious, actual, entire, real, big, serious, huge, little, main, new, major, frequent, political, possible, primary, different, biggest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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As a later issue of Grant Morrison's run on Batman reveals, all his Omega Beams did to Batman was cause everything that had happened to him up until that point.
Source: Comic Book / Final Crisis -
The issue of burial rights generally doesn't come up, because the number one cause of Remora death is being turned into a impact crater from interstellar rock slipping past the Greatship's point defenses and colliding with the hull.
Source: 24-Hour Armor -
Failed Metaphor: The writer tries to use the story as a metaphor for a real-life issue without properly considering the differences between the settings that cause the metaphor to break down.
Source: Fantastic Aesop
Cite this Source
Issue and Cause. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/issue
Cause & Issue. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/issue>.
Issue or Cause. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/issue.
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