Word Meanings - OBVIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To meet in the way. Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion. Fuller. 2. To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. To lay

Additional info about word: OBVIATE

1. To meet in the way. Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion. Fuller. 2. To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions. Woodward.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBVIATE)

• Anticipate
• Forestall
• prejudge
• expect
• foretaste
• apprehend
• prevent
• prearrange
• prepare
• meet
• obviate
• intercept
• forecast
• Forefend
• Stave
• Preclude
• Prevent
• bar
• debar
• impede
• hinder
• Hinder
• obstruct
• neutralize
• nullify
• thwart
• anticipate
• forefend
• frustrate
• checkmate
• Supersede
• Remove
• displace
• oust
• recal
• overrule
• suspend
• supplant

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OBVIATE)

• Attract
• court
• draw
• invoke
• provoke

Related words: (words related to OBVIATE)

• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• NEUTRALIZE
  To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• INTERCEPT
  To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,
• INTERCEPTIVE
  Intercepting or tending to intercept.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• DEBARB
  To deprive of the beard. Bailey.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• DEBARMENT
  Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• ATTRACTIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• DEBARRASS
  To disembarrass; to relieve.
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• PRECALCULATE
  To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.
• INEXPECTED
  Unexpected.