Definition for Allow:

• give permission; " She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; " I won't let the police search her basement"; " I cannot allow you to see your exam"

Synonyms for Allow:

• n.

  •
  • put up with,
  • let on,
  • favor,
  • go along with,
  • humor,
  • entitle,
  • come clean,
  • profess,
  • accredit,
  • hear of,
  • stand for,
  • privilege,
  • indulge,
  • certify,
  • gratify,
  • blink at,
  • warrant,
  • oblige.
  •
  • encourage,
  • carry,
  • recognize,
  • open up.
  •
  • bring,
  • arraign,
  • call,
  • appeal,
  • subtract,
  • deduct.
  •
  • say yes,
  • mandate.
  •
  • hand over,
  • approbate.
  •
  • put aside,
  • find.
  •
  • admeasure,
  • measure out,
  • lot.
  •
  • confess,
  • avow,
  • fess up,
  • own.
  •allow (noun)
  • provide for,
  • countenance,
  • give up,
  • let,
  • leave,
  • allow for,
  • earmark,
  • grant,
  • take into account,
  • reserve,
  • permit.
  •allow for (noun)
  • provide for,
  • include,
  • consider,
  • make allowances for,
  • take into account.

• v.

  •admit; acknowledge (verb)
  • concede,
  • grant,
  • avow,
  • acquiesce,
  • confess,
  • own,
  • let on.
  •allot (verb)
  • divide,
  • partition,
  • budget,
  • ration,
  • assign,
  • parcel,
  • apportion,
  • allocate,
  • earmark,
  • distribute,
  • deal,
  • set,
  • slice,
  • allot,
  • share,
  • split,
  • segment,
  • dispense,
  • cut,
  • portion,
  • Mete,
  • measure,
  • give.
  •compromise (verb)
  • compensate,
  • mediate,
  • concede,
  • settle,
  • compromise,
  • appease,
  • bargain,
  • adjust,
  • reconcile,
  • accommodate.
  •consent (verb)
  • let,
  • acquiesce,
  • assent,
  • consent,
  • condone,
  • accept,
  • approve,
  • concur,
  • sanction,
  • ratify,
  • endorse.
  •enable (verb)
  • empower,
  • facilitate,
  • commission,
  • authorize,
  • enable,
  • permit,
  • license.
  •give (verb)
  • expend,
  • award,
  • attribute,
  • render,
  • bequeath,
  • present,
  • lavish,
  • devote,
  • pay,
  • shower,
  • serve,
  • furnish,
  • deliver,
  • submit,
  • bestow,
  • dole,
  • grant,
  • supply,
  • fund,
  • help,
  • impart,
  • pledge,
  • offer,
  • extend,
  • contribute,
  • disburse,
  • send,
  • provide,
  • ascribe,
  • endow,
  • donate,
  • lend,
  • assist,
  • tender,
  • consign.
  •permit (verb)
  • enfranchise,
  • bless,
  • tolerate,
  • release.
  •permit an action (verb)
  • oblige,
  • let,
  • release,
  • give leave,
  • sanction,
  • approve,
  • support,
  • pass,
  • give permission,
  • stand,
  • put up with,
  • suffer,
  • authorize,
  • favor,
  • endure,
  • okay,
  • tolerate,
  • be game for,
  • give a blank check,
  • pass on,
  • sit still for,
  • be big,
  • empower,
  • recognize,
  • go along with,
  • warrant,
  • hold with,
  • accord,
  • give the green light,
  • indulge,
  • hear of,
  • license,
  • certify,
  • give carte blanche,
  • commission,
  • endorse,
  • brook,
  • admit,
  • give the go-ahead,
  • bear,
  • take kindly to,
  • grant permission,
  • live with,
  • accredit,
  • consent.
  •portion (verb)
  • dismember,
  • piece,
  • compartmentalize,
  • chunk,
  • halve,
  • zone,
  • subdivide.
  •qualify (verb)
  • modify,
  • reserve,
  • except,
  • limit,
  • qualify,
  • temper,
  • stipulate,
  • mitigate.
  •set aside (verb)
  • deduct,
  • apportion,
  • spare,
  • give,
  • allot,
  • lot,
  • provide,
  • allocate,
  • admeasure,
  • remit,
  • Mete,
  • assign.
  •social (verb)
  • give up,
  • permit,
  • let.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • interdiction,
  • cross examine,
  • deterrence,
  • plead,
  • approbate,
  • Forfend,
  • let on,
  • agree to,
  • try,
  • nonappearance,
  • impermissible,
  • fess up,
  • sue,
  • assume,
  • arraign,
  • defend,
  • encourage,
  • preclusive,
  • stand-down,
  • determent,
  • put aside,
  • cough up,
  • admeasure,
  • preclusion,
  • profess.
  •
  • obviate,
  • petition,
  • remand,
  • repulse,
  • open up,
  • endorsement,
  • deterrent,
  • avow,
  • balk,
  • sustain,
  • remit,
  • interdict,
  • seek,
  • sworn,
  • appeal,
  • allowable,
  • proscribe,
  • subpoena,
  • uphold,
  • entitle,
  • authorization,
  • preventive,
  • taboo,
  • prophylactic,
  • hand over,
  • permission,
  • overturn,
  • unlock,
  • approval,
  • fend,
  • permissible,
  • intercept,
  • stymie,
  • depose.
  •
  • own,
  • competent,
  • validate,
  • parry,
  • approbation,
  • prohibition,
  • protective,
  • allowance,
  • admissible,
  • stump,
  • walk,
  • foil.
  •
  • bring,
  • excuse,
  • avert,
  • accredit,
  • confess,
  • stand for,
  • judge.
  •
  • defeat,
  • convey,
  • channel,
  • mandate,
  • find.
  •
  • rise,
  • call.
  •
  • warrant,
  • transmit.
  •
  • ward,
  • cross.
  •
  • carry.
  •
  • clear.
  •
  • lot.
  •
  • go.
  •afford
  • be able to.
  •agree
  • consent,
  • assent,
  • give carte blanche,
  • pass on.
  •authorize
  • license.
  •consent
  • say yes.
  •decriminalize
  • legitimize.
  •discount
  • make allowance for.
  •empower
  • empower.
  •endure
  • bear,
  • go,
  • enduring.
  •give
  • give way,
  • let have,
  • impart.
  •harmonize
  • agree.
  •leave
  • mislay,
  • leave.
  •legalize
  • decriminalize.
  •permit
  • approbate.
  •produce
  • yield.
  •spell
  • take over,
  • spell.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abode,
  • affluence,
  • be able to,
  • breach,
  • deterrence,
  • harbour,
  • enforce,
  • modulate,
  • throw overboard,
  • avow,
  • vouchsafe,
  • assert,
  • proscribe,
  • construct,
  • stick,
  • accede,
  • hold with,
  • sustain,
  • lose,
  • palliate,
  • own up,
  • advocate,
  • pardon,
  • deduct,
  • relinquish,
  • realize,
  • complacent,
  • set free,
  • impermissible,
  • forgive,
  • sworn,
  • duty,
  • ignore,
  • admissible,
  • position,
  • agnize,
  • bear,
  • confirm,
  • intend,
  • fitting,
  • give carte blanche,
  • forget about,
  • judge,
  • can,
  • esteem,
  • be aware of,
  • about,
  • abate,
  • deem,
  • imagine,
  • forgo,
  • absolve,
  • spit it out,
  • notarize,
  • apologize for,
  • admeasure,
  • comply with,
  • apply,
  • reckon with,
  • account,
  • forfeit,
  • slip,
  • so,
  • Permitting,
  • repulse,
  • subscribe to,
  • mete out,
  • give a blank check,
  • take on,
  • taboo,
  • transmit,
  • abandon,
  • feel,
  • hand over,
  • fancy,
  • overlook,
  • handpick,
  • exalted,
  • business,
  • home,
  • prohibition,
  • stump,
  • uphold,
  • plead,
  • potentially,
  • spare,
  • hear of,
  • grant permission,
  • approve of,
  • gloss over,
  • sufferance,
  • okay,
  • yet,
  • clearing,
  • introduce,
  • adequacy,
  • make allowance,
  • spell,
  • launch,
  • however,
  • why,
  • hand in,
  • excuse,
  • consent to,
  • indulge,
  • concession,
  • blink at,
  • confront,
  • communicate,
  • say,
  • intercept,
  • turn inside out,
  • spill,
  • decorous,
  • defend,
  • allow for,
  • experience,
  • conclude,
  • mandate,
  • gage,
  • come clean,
  • give the word,
  • explain,
  • give in to,
  • charter,
  • include,
  • approval,
  • remand,
  • approbation,
  • heap,
  • maintain,
  • warrant,
  • cede,
  • cross,
  • lump it,
  • interdict,
  • dispense with,
  • bond,
  • infract,
  • stand for,
  • Allowing,
  • expect,
  • air,
  • bring,
  • deterrent,
  • channel,
  • protective,
  • prophylactic,
  • waive,
  • suspend,
  • arrogant,
  • necessitate,
  • give away,
  • due,
  • withal,
  • humour,
  • mislay,
  • leave alone,
  • brook,
  • authorization,
  • result in,
  • sit still for,
  • exonerate,
  • let by,
  • kick back,
  • fend,
  • ok,
  • give in,
  • agree to,
  • try,
  • entertain,
  • perchance,
  • franchise,
  • be afraid,
  • build,
  • allowable,
  • subpoena,
  • dole out,
  • take into consideration,
  • sympathize,
  • abundance,
  • surmise,
  • pull up stakes,
  • take over,
  • let go,
  • proffer,
  • suffer,
  • prove,
  • wager,
  • admit defeat,
  • to,
  • competent,
  • stand-down,
  • find,
  • office,
  • need,
  • spoil,
  • cop a plea,
  • transfer,
  • take off,
  • dish out,
  • abide,
  • authorisation,
  • express an opinion,
  • maybe,
  • reflect,
  • institute,
  • allowance,
  • wink at,
  • make allowances,
  • measure out,
  • let in,
  • call for,
  • take into account,
  • let on,
  • tell all,
  • preventive,
  • let slip,
  • drop out,
  • let have,
  • bate,
  • reckon,
  • depreciate,
  • conquer,
  • appeal,
  • open,
  • give out,
  • part,
  • parry,
  • capture,
  • go forth,
  • editorialize,
  • modest,
  • opine,
  • walk,
  • defeat,
  • reprieve,
  • forego,
  • will,
  • connive at,
  • lot,
  • articulate,
  • waste time,
  • give into,
  • make allowances for,
  • delegate,
  • susceptible,
  • proper,
  • issue,
  • hand out,
  • adjudge,
  • trustful,
  • depose,
  • Licensing,
  • assume,
  • inhibit,
  • conceive,
  • presume,
  • loan,
  • face,
  • be inclined to think,
  • opportunity,
  • provide for,
  • nonappearance,
  • letting,
  • disregard,
  • contemplate,
  • have,
  • infer,
  • in order that,
  • durable,
  • form an opinion,
  • plead guilty,
  • appearance,
  • pass,
  • suspicion,
  • perceive,
  • petition,
  • gift with,
  • seize,
  • relax,
  • direct,
  • refund,
  • stop,
  • think of,
  • give ground,
  • underwrite,
  • function,
  • stymie,
  • part with,
  • foil,
  • dampen,
  • swallow,
  • disdainful,
  • go along with,
  • deed over,
  • commiserate,
  • result,
  • say yes,
  • privileged,
  • forgive and forget,
  • allege,
  • reduce,
  • assurance,
  • bear with,
  • authorise,
  • oblige,
  • trusting,
  • renounce,
  • cough up,
  • yield,
  • make possible,
  • calculate,
  • favor,
  • lay off,
  • sue,
  • apt,
  • confer,
  • show compassion,
  • glib,
  • say the word,
  • lump,
  • open up,
  • free,
  • go,
  • seek,
  • take kindly to,
  • state,
  • extenuate,
  • subtract,
  • legislate,
  • confess,
  • meditate,
  • propose,
  • unlock,
  • encourage,
  • own up to,
  • regard,
  • charge,
  • let pass,
  • recognize,
  • appreciate,
  • take account of,
  • enjoin,
  • gather,
  • digest,
  • give to,
  • lofty,
  • third-party,
  • whereby,
  • live with,
  • surrender,
  • step aside,
  • take for,
  • go away,
  • sufficiency,
  • accord,
  • foster,
  • take it,
  • make allowance for,
  • fess up,
  • think,
  • exculpate,
  • induce,
  • put aside,
  • avouch,
  • trust,
  • fall in with,
  • divine,
  • depart,
  • privilege,
  • Forfend,
  • countenance,
  • remit,
  • resign,
  • rent,
  • back,
  • resign oneself to,
  • depute,
  • be game for,
  • undergo,
  • make concession for,
  • neglect,
  • humor,
  • suppose,
  • ward,
  • right,
  • how,
  • discontinue,
  • not oppose,
  • legitimate,
  • admit,
  • fall for,
  • give leave,
  • be big,
  • book,
  • support,
  • agreement,
  • deduce,
  • add,
  • count,
  • miss,
  • get out,
  • respect,
  • entrust,
  • permission,
  • acknowledge,
  • come over,
  • embrace,
  • validate,
  • accredit,
  • nevertheless,
  • certify,
  • applaud,
  • forget,
  • endure,
  • deal out,
  • understand,
  • tell the truth,
  • liberate,
  • adjudicate,
  • agreeable,
  • put faith in,
  • enduring,
  • second,
  • fork out,
  • face up to,
  • pawn,
  • give up,
  • give way,
  • preclusive,
  • pine,
  • consider,
  • promise,
  • see,
  • rise,
  • obviate,
  • proclaim,
  • turn over,
  • credit,
  • eloquent,
  • leave,
  • show,
  • fit,
  • receive,
  • pass over,
  • call,
  • justify,
  • gratify,
  • express,
  • take on trust,
  • dispensation,
  • plight,
  • give power,
  • defer,
  • snow,
  • give the green light,
  • nonetheless,
  • repute,
  • concord,
  • rebate,
  • tax,
  • take for granted,
  • determent,
  • shake hands,
  • convey,
  • rain,
  • acquiescence,
  • decriminalize,
  • accession,
  • avert,
  • profess,
  • put up with,
  • gift,
  • pass on,
  • stomach,
  • be without,
  • carry,
  • estimate,
  • comply,
  • stand,
  • possibly,
  • let ride,
  • transgress,
  • ought to,
  • recognise,
  • permissible,
  • be inactive,
  • decent,
  • clear,
  • make,
  • be responsible for,
  • verify,
  • be in sympathy,
  • provisions,
  • balk,
  • suitable,
  • write off,
  • shell out,
  • afford,
  • vindicate,
  • pour,
  • arraign,
  • rubber stamp,
  • own,
  • give consent,
  • entitle,
  • legitimatize,
  • assent to,
  • give the go-ahead,
  • overturn,
  • empathize,
  • lead,
  • administer,
  • give over,
  • break,
  • abiding,
  • make eligible,
  • shut eyes to,
  • come round,
  • advance,
  • cross examine,
  • legitimize,
  • close with,
  • legalize,
  • buy,
  • rationalize,
  • abide by,
  • believe,
  • interdiction,
  • perhaps,
  • preclusion,
  • make over,
  • subscribe,
  • permissive,
  • dream,
  • proud,
  • haughty,
  • out with it,
  • give permission,
  • agree,
  • no matter who,
  • endorsement,
  • approbate.

Antonyms for Allow:

• n.

  • allow for
    discount.

• v.

  • admit; acknowledge
    refuse, dissent, disapprove, repudiate, disown, disallow, withstand, keep, deny, resist, prohibit, hold, dispute, disagree, disavow, reject, protest, forbid.
  • permit an action
    repel, prevent, veto, oppose, Unauthorize, withhold.
  • set aside
    take.
  • social
    prevent.
  • Other antonyms:
    dispute, suppress, block, question, kid, withstand, confiscate, distrust, suspect, hold back, frustrate, appropriate, deter, disbelieve, hinder, hide, conceal, mistrust, grudge, check, dislike, negative, retain, repress, interfere, doubt, discredit, begrudge, impede, obstruct, rebut, deprive, protest, discourage, revoke, curb, restrain, deplore, stint, arrogate, resist, discountenance, bar, frown, disfavor, cover, veil, obscure, ban, reject, censure.

Homophones for Allow:

• allay, alalia, alleyway, ali, awheel, awhile, aalii, awl, ala, allele, aioli, alley, ail, allah, ale, ally, al, ailey, aloe, alloy, all, allyl, alula, aliyah, awol, aloha, aeolia.

Hypernym for Allow:

• v.

  • social
    pass.

Hyponym for Allow:

• v.

  • possession
    discount.