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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. Avi Hasson:

    The issue of skilled and available manpower is the main barrier to growth and competitiveness in the field of high tech.

  2. Eli Goldstein:

    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.

  3. John Kelly:

    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.

  4. Helen Keller:

    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.

  5. Terry Abbott:

    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.


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