Corporate English
Dictionaries
About us
App
Sign up
ES
Learn languages with fun
Try For Free
Blog
Dictionaries
Synonyms Antonyms
For
Choose the perfect synonym or antonym for the word
wound
enhance
insertion
innocent
addition
For
/fɔː(r)/
Used to indicate a purpose, cause, destination, or reason for something.
Synonyms:
in favor of
on behalf of
Antonyms:
This word has no antonyms
Examples:
There's a letter
for
you.
Take care of yourself,
for
he means to kill you."
For
it was summer – late June.
Etymology:
From Old English
for
, from Proto-Germanic *fur, *fora. Cognate with Old Saxon fur, Dutch voor, and German für.
Usage Statistics:
8253 mentions per 1 million words
Very Often
Hint:
Frequency according to COCA
Formal Synonyms
Informal Synonyms
© 2025 Lithium Lab Pte Ltd