What are some opposite words for barrier?

Antonyms for barrier
ˈbær i ərbar·ri·er

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.8 / 4 votes

  1. barrier

    A bar is something that is or may be firmly fixed, ordinarily with intent to prevent entrance or egress; as, the bars of a prison cell; the bars of a wood-lot. A barrier obstructs, but is not necessarily impassable. Barrier is used of objects more extensive than those to which bar is ordinarily applied. A mountain range may be a barrier to exploration; but a mass of sand across the entrance to a harbor is called a bar. Discovered falsehood is a bar to confidence. Barricade has become practically a technical name for an improvised street fortification, and, unless in some way modified, is usually so understood. A parapet is a low or breast-high wall, as about the edge of a roof, terrace, etc., especially, in military use, such a wall for the protection of troops; a rampart is the embankment surrounding a fort, on which the parapet is raised; the word rampart is often used as including the parapet. Bulwark is a general word for any defensive wall or rampart; its only technical use at present is in nautical language, where it signifies the raised side of a ship above the upper deck, topped by the rail. Compare BOUNDARY; IMPEDIMENT.

    Antonyms:
    admittance, entrance, opening, passage, road, thoroughfare, transit, way

    Synonyms:
    bar, barricade, breastwork, bulwark, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, parapet, prohibition, rampart, restraint, restriction

    Preposition:
    A barrier to progress, against invasion; a barrier between nations.

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. barriernoun

    a structure or object that impedes free movement

    Synonyms:
    roadblock

  2. barrier, roadblocknoun

    any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective

    "intolerance is a barrier to understanding"

    Synonyms:
    roadblock, barricade

  3. barriernoun

    anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access

    Synonyms:
    roadblock

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. barriernoun

    Synonyms:
    obstruction, impediment, obstacle, hindrance, barricade

How to use barrier in a sentence?

  1. Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan:

    Right now, the 78 miles that have been built have been built where there was an existing form of barrier, we just started breaking ground in( Rio Grande Valley), where we're building miles of new wall where there has been no structure there at all.

  2. Carlyle:

    Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

  3. Eric Leuthardt:

    What's interesting is that the blood-brain barrier is a two-way street, by breaking it down, you can get things into the brain, but also by breaking it down now things can go from your brain out into your circulation, to your peripheral system, which includes your immune system.

  4. Avi Hasson:

    The issue of skilled and available manpower is the main barrier to growth and competitiveness in the field of high tech.

  5. Climate Council:

    The Australian government has stewardship of one of the world's most precious and iconic ecosystems, but The Great Barrier Reef continued support for fossil fuels and its lack of effective climate policy means it's utterly failing to live up to that responsibility.

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