What is another word for barrier?
Synonyms for barrier
ˈbær i ərbar·ri·er
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, restrictionAntonyms:
admittance, entrance, opening, passage, road, thoroughfare, transit, wayPreposition:
A barrier to progress, against invasion; a barrier between nations.
Princeton's WordNet
barriernoun
a structure or object that impedes free movement
Synonyms:
roadblockbarrier, roadblocknoun
any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
"intolerance is a barrier to understanding"
barriernoun
anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
Synonyms:
roadblock
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
barriernoun
Synonyms:
obstruction, obstacle, hinderance, bar, BARRICADE, stop, impediment
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
barriernoun
Synonyms:
obstruction, impediment, obstacle, hindrance, barricade
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "barrier":
obstacle, barrera, fence, impediment, wall, separating, barrière, hurdle, gate, hindrance, barriers, roadblock, obstacles, separation, constraint, barricade, obstruction, rail
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1042 | bar | |
#1374 | wall | |
#4069 | gate | |
#4108 | rail | |
#6234 | separation | |
#7070 | barriers | |
#7079 | barrier | |
#7800 | restriction | |
#8175 | fence | |
#9968 | constraint | |
#11746 | obstacles | |
#12795 | prohibition | |
#15035 | restraint | |
#16523 | obstacle | |
#16849 | separating | |
#18633 | obstruction | |
#25605 | hurdle | |
#38554 | impediment | |
#43279 | barricade | |
#44966 | hindrance | |
#54917 | rampart | |
#56693 | roadblock | |
#61313 | barrera | |
#73231 | parapet | |
#77590 | bulwark | |
#95572 | barriere |
How to use barrier in a sentence?
The issue of skilled and available manpower is the main barrier to growth and competitiveness in the field of high tech.
New technologies like radiative cooling are often more expensive, people are very sensitive to first cost, and so that is another barrier to getting new things out there.
To be honest, it's not a wall, the president still says' wall' — oftentimes frankly he'll say' barrier' or' fencing,' now he's tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Social media enables the behavior to start, there is no way that a teacher is going to walk up to a kid in the hallway and say, 'Hey, would you like to see a naked picture of me?' They won't do it. But they will do that on social media. It's like it erases what used to be that barrier.
Translations for barrier
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- hindernis, versperringAfrikaans
- حاجزArabic
- бариера, преграда, граница, препятствиеBulgarian
- bariéraCzech
- hindring, barrierDanish
- Barriere, Schlagbaum, Grenze, Schranke, HindernisGerman
- φράγμαGreek
- bariloEsperanto
- límite, barreraSpanish
- raja, este, aitaFinnish
- barrière, limite, frontièreFrench
- bacadhScottish Gaelic
- מחסוםHebrew
- sorompó, akadályHungarian
- bariloIdo
- limite, barrieraItalian
- obiceLatin
- barrièreDutch
- bomNorwegian
- barreira, limite, obstáculoPortuguese
- лимит, шлагбаум, предел, преграда, граница, препятствие, барьерRussian
- barriärSwedish
- kizuiziSwahili
- رکاوٹUrdu
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