Antonyms for disruptiondis·rup·tion

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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. Sabrina Corlette:

   We're still dealing with a lot of disruption in people's lives.

2. European Super League.The:

   I want to apologize to all the fans, supporters of Liverpool Football Club for the disruption I caused over the last 48 hours, it goes without saying, but should be said, that the project put forward was never going to stand without the fans. No one ever thought differently in England.Read More.

3. Emma Pinchbeck:

   Wind has become a mainstream power source for the UK, providing up to 35 % of our electricity over the weekend. Renewables have been crucial to phasing out dirty coal, the coal phase out is just the beginning of a move away from fossil fuels to low carbon living, to avoid the enormous risks of climate disruption. Last week, the Committee on Climate Change said we can only achieve net-zero emissions with a massive increase in renewables.

4. Paul Grimm:

   In patients who are on the regular drug, the four-times-a-day drug (cystagon), they have tremendous amounts of family disruption because you have to give the drug every six hours around the clock, and if you think about it, for a lot of families that just can’t happen— if there’s a single-parent family or [they have] a lot of kids, or if the family isn’t very well off, or if mom and dad both work.

5. 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.

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