Antonyms for restriction
rɪˈstrɪk ʃənre·stric·tion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.8 / 5 votes

1. restriction

   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, barrier, breastwork, bulwark, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, parapet, prohibition, rampart, restraint

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

Matched Categories

1. • Regulation

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

1. restriction, limitationnoun

   a principle that limits the extent of something

   "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements"

   Synonyms:
   confinement, limitation, limit

2. limitation, restrictionnoun

   an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)

   Synonyms:
   confinement, limitation, limit

3. restriction, confinementnoun

   the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

   "the restriction of the infection to a focal area"

   Synonyms:
   labour, confinement, parturiency, limitation, childbed, travail, lying-in, labor

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. restrictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   restraint, constraint, confinement, repression, circumscription, limitation

How to use restriction in a sentence?

1. Deputy Solicitor General Sam Siegel:

   California’s [large capacity magazine] restriction is one suchmeasure, evidence demonstrates that when [large capacity magazines] are used in massshootings, the number of people injured and killed is greater than when they’re not.

2. Vivek Murthy:

   I think in these situations it is essential to let science and public health guide these decisions, what we know, from scientists and from public health experts is that a quarantine and a travel restriction at this stage does not make sense. It is not supported by evidence.

3. Eric Ravussin:

   Even if the weight loss was a primary end point, I think that the question is really: What is the best strategy to get people to stick to a diet? we know daily calorie restriction -- if you have to count your calories every day and all that -- it's a tough one. I think that there's some hope that this alternate-day fast, or modified fast, would be a better or easier strategy, but ... the dropout rate is kind of alarming.

4. Hakan Bjorkman:

   Hospitals have closed down because they have been overrun by Ebola patients and non-Ebola patients are too afraid to go to them for fear of catching the virus, hIV prevention activities in schools and awareness raising for the general population has been suspended due to the restriction of movement, the closure of all education institutions and the overall ban on public gathering.

5. Nina Taylor:

   That type of restriction in the long term leads to weight gain, not weight loss, and it often leads to weight cycling.

How to pronounce restriction?

How to say restriction in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency