Word Meanings - PROHIBIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits
Additional info about word: PROHIBIT
1. To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing. Note: Prohibit was formerly followed by to with the infinitive, but is now commonly followed by from with the verbal noun in -ing. 2. To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. Milton. Syn. -- To forbid; interdict; debar; prevent; hinder. -- Prohibit, Forbid. To forbid is Anglo-Saxon, and is more familiar; to prohibit is Latin, and is more formal or official. A parent forbids his child to be out late at night; he prohibits his intercourse with the profane and vicious.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROHIBIT)
- Debar
- Exclude
- stop
- thwart
- obstruct
- hinder
- prevent
- deter
- deprive
- disqualify
- deny
- prohibit
- preclude
- Inhibit
- Prevent
- restrain
- debar
- Interdict
- Prohibit
- estop
- disallow
- proscribe
- forbid
- Proscribe
- Denounce
- condemn
- reject
- interdict
- ostracize
- Restrain
- Check
- repress
- limit
- confine
- restrict
- withhold
- curb
- coerce
- narrow
- circumscribe
- reduce
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROHIBIT)
Related words: (words related to PROHIBIT)
- CHECKWORK
Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard. - INHIBITORY
Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. - DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation. - CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - LIMITARIAN
Tending to limit. - LIMITIVE
Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. - DENOUNCE
denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx. - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - LIMITABLE
Capable of being limited. - RESTRICT
Restricted. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - INTERDICT
To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. Ayliffe. (more info) - CHECKREIN
1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse. - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - REPRESSIBLE
Capable of being repressed. - DEBARB
To deprive of the beard. Bailey. - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens. - UNLIMITED
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable. - MALLOWWORT
Any plant of the order MalvaceƦ.