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Synonyms 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.

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

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

    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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. barriernoun

    Synonyms:
    obstruction, obstacle, hinderance, bar, BARRICADE, stop, impediment

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. barriernoun

    Synonyms:
    obstruction, impediment, obstacle, hindrance, barricade

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How to use barrier in a sentence?

  1. Daniel J. Boorstin:

    Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.

  2. Paul Cohen:

    [T]oday we view computers as tools to be activated by a few clicks or keywords, in large part because we are separated by a language barrier, the goal of CwC is to bridge that barrier, and in the process encourage the development of new problem-solving technologies.

  3. Missy Cummings:

    There’s no technical barrier to this happening, the only barrier is FAA regulation.

  4. Kris Kobach:

    If you define a barrier to voting as just having to do something before you vote, every state has that barrier, virtually every state requires proof of address.

  5. M Scott Peck:

    Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.


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