The phrase "was caused" implies that an event or situation happened due to some factor or reason. Its antonyms, or opposites, would indicate that something did not happen due to a particular cause. These antonyms may include phrases such as "was prevented," "did not occur because of," "was not influenced by," "arose independently," or "was a coincidence." For example, one might say, "The accident was not caused by the driver's negligence," indicating that the driver did not contribute to the accident, but rather an external factor was at play. Using antonyms for "was caused" can add nuance and complexity to discussions of causality and help clarify the true source of an event or situation.

What are the antonyms for Was caused?

• v.

  • stem
  • abet
  ,
  • aid
  ,
  • cause
  ,
  • cease
  ,
  • decrease
  ,
  • encourage
  ,
  • end
  ,
  • halt
  ,
  • help
  ,
  • lessen
  ,
  • repress
  ,
  • stop
  .

• Other relevant words:

• effect
,
• result
.

Famous quotes with Was caused

• The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

  Henry A. Kissinger
• Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

  Charles Rangel
• The first stable conclusion I reached … was that the only thing brains could do was to approximate the responsivity to meanings that we presuppose in our everyday mentalistic discourse. When mechanical push comes to shove, a brain was always going to do what it was caused to do by current, local, mechanical circumstances, whatever it ought to do, whatever a God's-eye view might reveal about the actual meaning of its current states. But over the long haul, brains could be designed – by evolutionary processes – to do the right thing (from the point of view of meaning) with high reliability. … [B]rains are syntactic engines that can mimic the competence of semantic engines. … The appreciation of meanings – their discrimination and delectation – is central to our vision of consciousness, but this conviction that I, on the inside, deal directly with meanings turns out to be something rather like a benign "user-illusion".

  Daniel Dennett
• I first saw the light on the 5th of August, 1860, I was born in Lee Street, Wharf Street, Leicester. The deformity which I am now exhibiting was caused by my mother being frightened by an Elephant; my mother was going along the street when a procession of Animals were passing by, there was a terrible crush of people to see them, and unfortunately she was pushed under the Elephant's feet, which frightened her very much; this occurring during a time of pregnancy was the cause of my deformity.

  Joseph Merrick
• Every terrible thing in the world was caused by a whole combination of things. But everybody wanted to narrow it down to one cause—and not even the real one. Much better to have one cause—one person to punish. Then the unbearable could be borne.

  Orson Scott Card

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