What are the opposite words for allowance?
The word allowance is commonly used to refer to a fixed amount of money given to someone at regular intervals for personal expenses or for a specific purpose. However, there are many antonyms for the word allowance, which can be used to express the opposite meaning. The antonyms for the word allowance include disallow, forbid, refuse, reject, deprive, withhold, confiscate, deny, and disapprove. These antonyms indicate the negative actions taken by someone in authority to limit or withhold something from someone else. While allowance is often associated with a positive connotation, its antonyms suggest a negative and restrictive action.
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- abandonment
- rejection
- renunciation
- temperance
- exclusion
- limit
- command
- prohibition
- restraint
- negation
- stop
- stopping
- denial
- refusal
- abnegation
- ban
- check
- confinement
- constraint
- desertion
- elimination
- impediment
- inhibition
- interdiction
- invalidation
- nonconformity
- nullification
- protestation
- quitclaim
- traversal
- abdication
- banishment
- correction
- decree
- forbiddance
- force
- injunction
- liquidation
- nihilism
- objection
- omission
- ostracism
- taboo
- veto
- cancellation
- denial, renouncement of something
- amount of money or other supply
- discount; concession
- restriction
- official forbiddance
- calling off; erasure
- inspection, examination
- directive, instruction
- imprisonment; restriction
- adjustment; fixing
- circumscription
- dismissal, refusal of belief in
- waiver
- abolition
- leaving out
- expulsion; forbiddance
- obstruction, hindrance
- restraint, disadvantage
- contradiction, denial
- refusal to believe
- belief, behavior different from most
- argument, disagreement
- something forgotten or excluded
- ban, forbiddance
- repression
- denial, refusal
- abandonment, rejection
- self-restraint; abstinence
- giving up; letting go
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- abandonment
- rejection
- renunciation
-
temperance
- asceticism,
- astringency,
- moderatism,
- reasonableness,
- self-discipline,
- soberness,
- teetotalism,
- Refrainment,
- self-deprivation,
- asceticisms,
- astringencies,
- forgoings,
- moderatisms,
- reasonablenesses,
- self control,
- self deprivation,
- self deprivations,
- self discipline,
- self disciplines,
- self-disciplines,
- selfcontrol,
- selfdeprivation,
- selfdeprivations,
- selfdisciplines,
- un inebriations,
- un intoxication,
- un intoxications,
- un-inebriation,
- un-inebriations,
- un-intoxication,
- un-intoxications,
- uninebriation,
- uninebriations,
- unintoxication,
- unintoxications.
-
exclusion
- coventry,
- lockout,
- relegation,
- Nonadmission,
- lockouts,
- coventries,
- de barring,
- de-barring,
- debarrings,
- dis charge,
- dis charges,
- dis missal,
- dis missals,
- dis-charge,
- dis-charges,
- dis-missal,
- dis-missals,
- ex communication,
- ex communications,
- ex-communication,
- ex-communications,
- inter dict,
- inter-dict,
- interdictings,
- keeping out,
- keeping outs,
- non admission,
- non admissions,
- non-admission,
- non-admissions,
- nonadmissions,
- oustings,
- re legation,
- re legations,
- re-legation,
- re-legations,
- relegations.
- limit
- command
- prohibition
- restraint
- negation
- stop
- stopping
-
denial
- disavowal,
- disproof,
- nonacceptance,
- renouncement,
- Refutal,
- Controversion,
- disavowals,
- renouncements,
- no way,
- non-committal,
- brushoff,
- abstainings,
- brush offs,
- brush-off,
- brush-offs,
- brushoffs,
- controversions,
- dis allowance,
- dis allowances,
- dis approval,
- dis approvals,
- dis avowal,
- dis avowals,
- dis claimer,
- dis claimers,
- dis missing,
- dis missings,
- dis sent,
- dis sents,
- dis-allowance,
- dis-allowances,
- dis-approval,
- dis-approvals,
- dis-avowal,
- dis-avowals,
- dis-claimer,
- dis-claimers,
- dis-missing,
- dis-missings,
- dis-sent,
- dis-sents,
- dismissings,
- disproofs,
- forswearings,
- no ways,
- non acceptances,
- non committal,
- non-acceptance,
- non-acceptances,
- non-committals,
- nonacceptances,
- noncommittals,
- re buttal,
- re fusing,
- re pulses,
- re-buttal,
- re-buttals,
- re-pulses,
- refrainings,
- refusings,
- refutals,
- renegement,
- renegements,
- repudiatings,
- statement abnegation,
- statement abnegations.
- refusal
- abnegation
- ban
-
check
- checkerboard,
- inhibition,
- restrainer,
- tartan,
- Re-search,
- XS,
- checkerboards,
- dis appointment,
- dis appointments,
- dis-appointment,
- dis-appointments,
- re buff,
- re buffs,
- re search,
- re searches,
- re strainer,
- re strainers,
- re verse,
- re view,
- re views,
- re-buff,
- re-buffs,
- re-strainer,
- re-strainers,
- re-verse,
- re-view,
- re-views,
- restrainers.
- confinement
- constraint
-
desertion
- elusion,
- elusions,
- castoff,
- running out on,
- castoffs,
- de parting,
- de partings,
- de relict,
- de relicts,
- de-parting,
- de-partings,
- de-relict,
- de-relicts,
- defectings,
- departings,
- dis affection,
- dis affections,
- dis avowing,
- dis-affection,
- dis-affections,
- dis-avowing,
- disavowings,
- forsakings,
- going back ons,
- re treats,
- re-treat,
- re-treats,
- running out ons.
- elimination
- impediment
- inhibition
- interdiction
- invalidation
-
nonconformity
- iconoclasm,
- recusancy,
- unconventionality,
- Bohemianism,
- nonagreement,
- non-compliance,
- Contumaciousness,
- Mutinousness,
- nonconsent,
- recusance,
- transgressiveness,
- bohemianisms,
- contumaciousnesses,
- dis agreement,
- dis agreements,
- dis approbation,
- dis approbations,
- dis obedience,
- dis obediences,
- dis-agreement,
- dis-agreements,
- dis-approbation,
- dis-approbations,
- dis-obedience,
- dis-obediences,
- hetero doxies,
- hetero doxy,
- hetero-doxies,
- heterodoxies,
- iconoclasms,
- in subordination,
- in subordinations,
- in-subordination,
- in-subordinations,
- mutinousnesses,
- non agreement,
- non agreements,
- non compliance,
- non conformity,
- non consent,
- non consents,
- non-agreement,
- non-agreements,
- non-compliances,
- non-conformities,
- non-consent,
- non-consents,
- nonagreements,
- nonconsents,
- recusances,
- recusancies,
- transgressivenesses,
- un conventionalities,
- un conventionality,
- un orthodoxies,
- un orthodoxy,
- un-conventionalities,
- un-orthodoxies,
- un-orthodoxy,
- unconventionalities,
- unorthodoxies.
- nullification
- protestation
- quitclaim
- traversal
- abdication
- banishment
-
correction
- re-formation,
- rectification,
- revisal,
- Punition,
- punitions,
- Re-examination,
- changings,
- editings,
- re dress,
- re dresses,
- re examination,
- re formations,
- re modelings,
- re pair,
- re pairs,
- re reading,
- re readings,
- re vising,
- re-dress,
- re-dresses,
- re-examinations,
- re-formations,
- re-modeling,
- re-modelings,
- re-pair,
- re-pairs,
- re-readings,
- re-vising,
- rectifications,
- reexaminations,
- rereadings,
- revisals,
- revisings,
- rightings.
- decree
- forbiddance
- force
- injunction
- liquidation
- nihilism
-
objection
- demurral,
- protestation,
- Remonstration,
- counterargument,
- counter argument,
- counter arguments,
- counter-argument,
- counter-arguments,
- counterarguments,
- demurrals,
- demurrings,
- dis content,
- dis contents,
- dis esteem,
- dis esteems,
- dis inclination,
- dis inclinations,
- dis pleasure,
- dis pleasures,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis-content,
- dis-contents,
- dis-esteem,
- dis-esteems,
- dis-inclination,
- dis-inclinations,
- dis-pleasure,
- dis-pleasures,
- dis-satisfaction,
- dis-satisfactions,
- re monstrance,
- re monstrances,
- re-monstrance,
- re-monstrances,
- shrinkings,
- un willingness,
- un willingnesses,
- un-willingness,
- un-willingnesses.
-
omission
- elision,
- inadvertency,
- preterition,
- pretermission,
- elisions,
- pretermissions,
- withholdings,
- leaving out,
- cutting outs,
- de fault,
- de faults,
- de-fault,
- de-faults,
- dis regard,
- dis regards,
- dis-regard,
- dis-regards,
- disregardance,
- disregardances,
- excludings,
- ignorings,
- in advertences,
- in advertencies,
- in advertency,
- in-advertence,
- in-advertences,
- in-advertencies,
- in-advertency,
- leaving outs,
- missings,
- over look,
- over looks,
- over sight,
- over sights,
- over-look,
- over-looking,
- over-looks,
- over-sight,
- over-sights,
- overlookings,
- preteritions,
- with holding,
- with holdings,
- with-holdings.
- ostracism
- taboo
-
veto
- veto.
-
cancellation
- retraction,
- abandonings,
- abolishings,
- cancelings,
- dis solution,
- dis solutions,
- dis solving,
- dis-solution,
- dis-solutions,
- dis-solving,
- dissolvings,
- in validating,
- in-validating,
- invalidatings,
- over ruling,
- over rulings,
- over-ruling,
- over-rulings,
- overrulings,
- quashings,
- re call,
- re calling,
- re callings,
- re calls,
- re peal,
- re peals,
- re traction,
- re tractions,
- re versal,
- re versing,
- re vocation,
- re vocations,
- re-call,
- re-calling,
- re-callings,
- re-calls,
- re-peals,
- re-traction,
- re-tractions,
- re-versal,
- re-vocation,
- re-vocations,
- recallings,
- retractings,
- reversings,
- revokings,
- un doing,
- un doings,
- un-doing,
- un-doings,
- with drawing,
- with drawings,
- with-drawing,
- with-drawings,
- withdrawings.
- denial, renouncement of something
- amount of money or other supply
- discount; concession
- restriction
-
official forbiddance
- ban.
- calling off; erasure
- inspection, examination
- directive, instruction
- imprisonment; restriction
- adjustment; fixing
- circumscription
- dismissal, refusal of belief in
- waiver
- abolition
- leaving out
- expulsion; forbiddance
- obstruction, hindrance
- restraint, disadvantage
- contradiction, denial
- refusal to believe
- belief, behavior different from most
- argument, disagreement
- something forgotten or excluded
- ban, forbiddance
- repression
- denial, refusal
- abandonment, rejection
- self-restraint; abstinence
- giving up; letting go
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Other relevant words
- aggregate,
- ban,
- composite,
- compound,
- deterrence,
- discouragement,
- exclusion,
- pool,
- repression,
- revocation,
- sum,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- total,
- totality,
- veto,
- whole.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
well kept
- Antonyms:
- more tumbledown, most tumbledown, adulterated.