Synonyms for prohibit
All synonyms
Verb
1. Forbid — to forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit
forbid, proscribe, disallow, ban, inhibit, veto, interdict, hinder, prevent, preclude, debar US, exclude, restrain, taboo, outlaw, thwart, frustrate, check, bar, nix, estop, redlight
Other
foresnaffle dated rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
I was prohibited to come.
Forms
- Past participle
- prohibited
e.g. prohibited → forbidden, proscribed, disallowed, banned…
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To prohibit is to give some formal command against, and especially to make some authoritative legal enactment against.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- ban Saudi Arabia will remove the ban on women driving.
- forbid This man I forbid any one to receive or address.
- disallow Decision to disallow Medicaid for second cochlea implant withdrawn.
By length
- 3 letters
- bar1, ban1, nix1
- 4 letters
- veto2
- 5 letters
- check1, taboo2, debar, estop
- 6 letters
- forbid2, outlaw2, hinder2, thwart1
- 7 letters
- prevent2, exclude2, inhibit3
- 8 letters
- restrain2, preclude2, disallow3, redlight
- 9 letters
- frustrate2, interdict3, proscribe2
- 11 letters
- foresnaffle
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (veto2 = 2 syllables).