Cause
Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.
Usage example: the much-debated causes of the American Civil War
Root is a synonym for cause in origin topic. In some cases you can use "Root" instead a noun "Cause", when it comes to topics like thing, agent, reason, foundation. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| common | common cause | common root |
| true | true cause | true root |
| single | single cause | single root |
| obvious | obvious cause | obvious root |
| Other adjectives: actual, real, hopeless, partial, eventual. | ||
Common collocations
| nothing | cause nothing | root nothing |
Both words in one sentence
- Person: Lack of pussy that fucks countries up, lack of pussy is the root fucking cause of all global instability, if more hajis were getting quality pussy, there'd be no reason for us to come over and fuck em up like this, cause a nutbusting haji, is a happy haji.
Source: Good People Have Good Sex - Lack of pussy is the root fucking cause of all global instability; if more hajjis were getting quality pussy, there'd be no reason for us to come over and fuck 'em up like this, 'cause a nutbusting hajji, is a happy hajji.
Source: Sex Is Good -
Here he was, the reason and root of her inability to embrace the cause of the Icemark, her family, humanity, the mortal world
everything!
Source: Parental Favoritism
Cite this Source
Root and Cause. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/root
Cause & Root. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/root>.
Root or Cause. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/root.
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