Antonyms for disruptiondis·rup·tion

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 5 votes

1. disruption

   Antonyms:
   union, amalgamation, reconciliation

   Synonyms:
   disintegration, discord, dissension, a breaking up, separation, alienation, hostility

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1. • Disorder
   • Disturbance
   • Interruption

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. break, interruption, disruption, gapnoun

   an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

   "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"

   Synonyms:
   disturbance, gap, commotion, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, crack, interruption, rift, intermission, break of serve, severance, falling out, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, flutter, hoo-hah, geological fault, hurly burly, spread, col, to-do, break, good luck, breaking, open frame, gaolbreak, dislocation, breach, breakage, perturbation, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, kerfuffle, opening, rupture, hoo-ha, prison-breaking

2. disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfufflenoun

   a disorderly outburst or tumult

   "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"

   Synonyms:
   disturbance, gap, flapping, flicker, ruction, commotion, folie, interruption, rumpus, mental disorder, whirl, din, flutter, hoo-hah, mental disturbance, hurly burly, flap, dislocation, ruffle, break, waver, affray, fluttering, perturbation, upset, noise, tumult, ruckus, kerfuffle, hoo-ha, to-do, psychological disorder, interference, fray

3. dislocation, disruptionnoun

   an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

   Synonyms:
   commotion, to-do, perturbation, breakdown, kerfuffle, hurly burly, dislocation, flutter, hoo-ha, disturbance, break, interruption, hoo-hah, gap

4. disruption, perturbationnoun

   the act of causing disorder

   Synonyms:
   commotion, fluster, to-do, perturbation, upset, hurly burly, dislocation, flutter, hoo-ha, gap, disturbance, break, interruption, hoo-hah, kerfuffle

How to use disruption in a sentence?

1. Carlyle Hall:

   The dislocation and the disruption that would be caused by something as great as this just can’t be understated, this will not make things better.

2. Usamah Bhatti:

   A sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in South East Asia was among the key factors listed by Japanese manufacturers for the easing in demand, severe supply chain disruption partly caused by pandemic restrictions and raw material shortages remained a dampener on production and orders.

3. Donald Trump:

   First of all let's not even use the word violence, there's very little disruption generally speaking. It's a function of the press, the press likes to say what the press likes to say, if one person gets up and starts shouting and the police walks that person out, they try and make it like it's a violent thing. It's not violent. It's a protester that stands up or probably a disruptor, because I think they're sent there by people on the other side.

4. Peter Dutton:

   We send a clear message, particularly [to] those ringleaders on Manus at the moment and over the course of the last few days, that have been causing significant disruption, that those people will not be settled in our country.

5. Kristen Knutson:

   It's a cross-sectional study, so we can't say anything about cause and effect or what came first, the mood disorder or the circadian disruption, and it's likely they affect each other in a circular fashion.

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