Synonyms for interdict
- verb
- noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
- n. 1
A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
Related words
- Word family
- interdiction
Forms
- Plural
- interdicts → interdictions, prohibitions, inhibitions…
- Past participle
- interdicted
e.g. interdicted → prohibited, proscribed, forbidden, disallowed…
Choose the right word
Inhibit and interdict are chiefly known by their ecclesiastical use.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- ban Saudi Arabia will remove the ban on women driving.
- prohibit Shame can limit what the law does not prohibit.
By length
- 3 letters
- bar1, ban1, nix1
- 4 letters
- veto2
- 5 letters
- taboo2, debar
- 6 letters
- forbid2
- 7 letters
- inhibit3
- 8 letters
- prohibit3, restrain2, preclude2, disallow3
- 9 letters
- proscribe2
- 10 letters
- inhibition4
- 11 letters
- prohibition4
- 12 letters
- interdiction4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (veto2 = 2 syllables).