Antonyms for ban
bɑn; ˈbɑ niban

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1. ban

   Banish, primarily to put under ban, to compel by authority to leave a place or country, perhaps with restriction to some other place or country. From a country, a person may be banished, exiled, or expatriated; banished from any country where he may happen to be, but expatriated or exiled only from his own. One may expatriate or exile himself; he is banished by others. Banish is a word of wide import; one may banish disturbing thoughts; care may banish sleep. To expel is to drive out with violence or rudeness, and so often with disgrace.

   Synonyms:
   banish, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, drive out, eject, evict, exile, expatriate, expel, ostracize, oust

   Preposition:
   Cataline was banished from Rome; John the Apostle was banished to Patmos.

Matched Categories

1. • Romanian Monetary Unit
   • Expel
   • Forbid
   • Moldovan Monetary Unit

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prohibition, ban, proscriptionnoun

   a decree that prohibits something

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, banning, prohibition era, prohibition, proscription, banishment

2. bannoun

   100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

3. bannoun

   100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

4. ban, banning, forbiddance, forbiddingnoun

   an official prohibition or edict against something

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, banning

5. Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BANverb

   a bachelor's degree in nursing

   Synonyms:
   prohibition, forbidding, forbiddance, proscription, banning

6. ban, censorverb

   forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

   Synonyms:
   blackball, censor, banish, ostracise, cast out, ostracize, shun

7. banverb

   prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure

   "Smoking is banned in this building"

   Synonyms:
   ostracise, cast out, shun, banish, ostracize, censor, blackball

8. banish, banverb

   ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

   Synonyms:
   blackball, ostracize, bar, banish, ostracise, cast out, relegate, censor, shun

9. banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackballverb

   expel from a community or group

   Synonyms:
   ostracize, veto, toss, relegate, cast out, toss out, fling, eschew, blackball, banish, chuck out, dispose, throw away, bar, censor, cast away, ostracise, cast aside, throw out, negative, put away, toss away, discard, shun

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1. bannoun

   Synonyms:
   announcement, notice, curse, anathema, denunciation, malediction, execration, interdiction, proscription, interdict, taboo

2. banverb

   Synonyms:
   curse, anathematize, execrate, interdict, forbid, proscribe, taboo

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conjure

   conjure is to summon someone up but to ban is to send away

   lisa banned lola to wash her shoes(it works the same with conjure but have different meanings)

   Submitted by anonymous on February 16, 2020  

How to use ban in a sentence?

1. Evan Greer:

   We need to draw a line in the sand and ban governments from using this technology before its too late. We know that members of Congress are currently drafting legislation related to facial recognition, and we hope they know that the public will not accept trojan horse regulations that line Jeff Bezos pockets at the expense of all of our basic human rights.

2. Filmmaker Leslee Udwin:

   Of course, the India government ban has ensured that this film now does proliferate on the Internet, but I have to tell you I am respectful of laws, in any country, and because there is a footprint of YouTube or torrents in India, it is my duty to bring that film off those channels and that is what I do, i will not break laws. I am respectful, I am moral, I have integrity, despite the witch hunt – this Salem-like witch hunt against me by those who are more interested in hiding their shame than saving their women.

3. Wang Yi:

   Now one potential problem is, given the United States' comprehensive ban on people's coming and going between China and the U.S. Now objectively, this will bring some difficulties to implementing this agreement, i hope that the U.S. will consider this problem, and how to continue to prevent the spread of this epidemic, while not taking unnecessary limitations on trade and people.

4. Sean Feucht:

   In response to the ban on singing, I believe, either one, its hypocrisy, because the state officials are largely encouraging protests, and Im not discouraging them.

5. Juan Carlos Hidalgo:

   Lifting the outstanding elements of the embargo and travel ban is a prerogative of Congress.

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