Synonyms for prohibition
ˌproʊ əˈbɪʃ ən

Princeton's WordNet(1.86 / 7 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. prohibition(noun)

   a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

   "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

   Synonyms:
   ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

2. prohibition, ban, proscription(noun)

   a decree that prohibits something

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

3. prohibition, prohibition era(noun)

   the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

   Synonyms:
   ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

4. prohibition(noun)

   refusal to approve or assent to

   Synonyms:
   ban, forbiddance, proscription, inhibition, prohibition era

5. prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance(noun)

   the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

   "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"

   Synonyms:
   forbidding, inhibition, forbiddance, ban, banning, prohibition era, proscription, suppression

Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. Prohibition(propernoun)

   Antonyms:
   permission

2. prohibition(noun)

   An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.

   Antonyms:
   permission

3. prohibition(noun)

   Antonyms:
   permission

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. prohibition

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

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. prohibition

   Synonyms:
   interdiction, inhibition, interdict, embargo, disallowance

   Antonyms:
   allowance, permission

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. prohibition(n.)

   Synonyms:
   interdiction, interdict, inhibition, disallowance, embargo

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "prohibition":

   ban, banning, prohibiting, prohibit, prohibitions, interdiction, prohibited, proscription, 'interdiction, bans, nuclear-test-ban, prohibits, banned, embargo, outlawing

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. Prohibition

   Synonyms:
   The Noble Experiment

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How to use prohibition in a sentence?

1. Dan Ahrens:

   This business is still in its infancy. It's like investing in alcohol post-Prohibition. There will be tons of growth, but there are going to be home runs and there will be lots of strikeouts.

2. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin:

   That's why I will work with you to craft the right bill that thoughtfully and carefully eliminates the era of prohibition that is currently failing us so miserably.

3. Massimo Passamonti:

   Prohibition creates a bigger criminal market, not a smaller one.

4. Mike Pompeo:

   We will refuse to provide assistance to foreign NGOs that give financial support to other foreign groups in the global abortion industry, we will enforce a strict prohibition on backdoor funding schemes and end-runs around our policy.

5. James Mattis:

   We met over several days and I spoke with some of our allies, the National Security Council considered the near century-old international prohibition against the use of chemical weapons. Defense Secretary James Mattis maintains The Syrian regime repeatedly and deliberately violated the international law. The Pentagon says the response was a retaliatory strike for Assad’s chemical attack on innocent civilians including children.

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