Antonyms for bar
bɑrbar

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. bar

   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.

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

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Automatic Rifle
   • Barrier
   • Block
   • Counter
   • Expel
   • Forbid
   • Heating Element
   • Hindrance
   • Implement
   • Law
   • Marking
   • Meteorology
   • Musical Notation
   • Obstruction
   • Pressure Unit
   • Profession
   • Ridge
   • Room
   • Secure
   • Support

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1. barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproomnoun

   a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter

   "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   cake, sedan, prevention, legal profession, legal community, pothouse, gin mill, public house, barroom, ginmill, taphouse, measure, saloon, stripe, streak, taproom, pub

2. barnoun

   a counter where you can obtain food or drink

   "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

3. barnoun

   a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon

   "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

4. measure, barnoun

   musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

   "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   measure, standard, measuring stick, metre, quantity, meter, amount, mensuration, legal profession, measuring, taproom, criterion, streak, barroom, step, bill, prevention, measurement, saloon, beat, cake, stripe, legal community, ginmill, cadence, measuring rod, touchstone

5. barnoun

   an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal

   "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

6. prevention, barnoun

   the act of preventing

   "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

7. barnoun

   (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter

   "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

8. barnoun

   a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore

   "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

9. legal profession, bar, legal communitynoun

   the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction

   "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey"

   Antonyms:
   unbar

   Synonyms:
   measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

10. stripe, streak, barnoun

    a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

    "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave"

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    cake, prevention, legal profession, legal community, barroom, ginmill, measure, run, stripe, streak, band, taproom, chevron, stripes, grade insignia, saloon, banding

11. cake, barnoun

    a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)

    "a bar of chocolate"

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, patty, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

12. Browning automatic rifle, BARnoun

    a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

13. barnoun

    a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

14. barnoun

    a heating element in an electric fire

    "an electric fire with three bars"

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

15. barverb

    (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried

    "spectators were not allowed past the bar"

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    measure, taproom, stripe, streak, legal community, legal profession, saloon, cake, ginmill, barroom, prevention

16. bar, debar, excludeverb

    prevent from entering; keep out

    "He was barred from membership in the club"

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    except, ward off, debar, leave out, fend off, block up, banish, avoid, forfend, avert, boot out, suspend, turf out, block off, shut, blockade, head off, leave off, deflect, stave off, take out, keep out, block, exclude, stop, forefend, chuck out, barricade, turn out, obviate, relegate, shut out, eject, omit

17. barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, barverb

    render unsuitable for passage

    "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    debar, block up, banish, lug, cease, immobilize, seal off, relegate, obturate, hold on, give up, jam, arrest, block off, close up, end, blank out, freeze, finish, obstruct, terminate, deflect, parry, embarrass, hold back, kibosh, lay off, draw a blank, stop over, hinder, break, impede, block, shut off, forget, exclude, stop, stuff, stymy, break off, turn back, blockade, immobilise, occlude, barricade, discontinue, halt, contain, close off, barricado, choke up, intercept, stymie, quit, check

18. banish, relegate, barverb

    expel, as if by official decree

    "he was banished from his own country"

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    barricade, blockade, block up, relegate, bump, cast out, banish, classify, ban, blackball, submit, demote, break, debar, block, kick downstairs, ostracize, block off, pass on, exclude, ostracise, stop, shun

19. barverb

    secure with, or as if with, bars

    "He barred the door"

    Antonyms:
    unbar

    Synonyms:
    stop, block, exclude, relegate, banish, barricade, block up, block off, debar, blockade

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. barnoun

   Synonyms:
   obstruction, barrier, impediment, obstacle, barricade, hindrance, shoal, sandbar, bank, ingot, lever, pole, rod, tribunal, judgment-seat, jimmy, betty

2. barverb

   Synonyms:
   debar, except, exclude, obstruct, restrain, hinder

How to use bar in a sentence?

1. Joseph Dunford:

   The one thing I'm going to steer clear of is talking about timelines, you can't set the bar and consider time a success.

2. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

   I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.

3. Abby Broyles:

   She asked me to come over. She asked me to bring some wine. We had wine and sushi and a couple of hours later, we were upstairs in their theater room watching a movie, for years I have struggled with stress and anxiety and insomnia. I took the bar exam on two hours of sleep.I mean, this is how far this goes back for me. And she knows that. And she gave me a medication I had never taken before. And I had an adverse reaction. Instead of helping me sleep, I hallucinated. And I don’t remember anything until I woke up or came to, and I was throwing up in a hamper.

4. Scott Dixon:

   I think he's raised the bar for all of us this year to keep pushing, it definitely feels like kind of the 2009 through sort of '12, '13 period with Dario. Super proud of what the 10 car has done. Super proud of Alex. Man, he's done a tremendous job this year.

5. Duncan Dickson:

   Since the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, guest expectations have been set on a new level, be Our Guest at Disney and Diagon Alley have only added to that. Every new technology and theming tact that the companies take raises the bar.

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