call forth

Questions about call forth

What does call forth mean?

call forth means "evoke or provoke to appear or occur". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for call forth?

Close synonyms include provoke, evoke, kick up, raise, conjure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is call forth a common word?

call forth is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.