Definition for Ban:

• Ecclesiastical anathema, interdict; curse supposed to have supernatural power; angry execration( archaic); formal prohibition; sentence of outlawry, esp. B. of the( Holy Roman) Empire; tacit prohibition by public opinion( under a b.). [ old French]

Synonyms for Ban:

• n.

  •
  • hush,
  • stifle,
  • black out.
  •anathema (noun)
  • imprecation,
  • malediction.
  •ban (noun)
  • forbiddance,
  • shun,
  • banning,
  • censor,
  • ostracise,
  • prohibition,
  • proscription,
  • bachelor of arts in nursing,
  • ostracize,
  • interdiction.
  •command (noun)
  • adjuration.
  •exclusion (noun)
  • ejection,
  • deportation,
  • abscission,
  • amputation,
  • disbarment,
  • excision,
  • boycott,
  • rejection,
  • eradication,
  • banishment,
  • exile,
  • renouncement,
  • denial,
  • elimination,
  • excommunication,
  • Disallowance,
  • extradition,
  • relegation,
  • exclusion,
  • ostracism,
  • expatriation,
  • removal,
  • repudiation.
  •interdiction (noun)
  • limitation,
  • a thou-shalt-not.
  •malediction (noun)
  • curse.
  •official forbiddance (noun)
  • restriction,
  • suppression,
  • refusal,
  • injunction.
  •prohibition (noun)
  • preclusion,
  • prevention,
  • restraint,
  • inhibition,
  • disapproval,
  • curtailment,
  • blockade,
  • constraint.

• v.

  •dissuade (verb)
  • daunt,
  • chill,
  • divert,
  • intimidate,
  • bar,
  • derail,
  • deter,
  • inhibit,
  • check,
  • discourage,
  • dampen,
  • disincline,
  • deflect,
  • dissuade,
  • dishearten,
  • avert,
  • restrain,
  • prevent,
  • depress,
  • admonish.
  •exclude (verb)
  • eject,
  • disbar,
  • prohibit,
  • relegate,
  • deport,
  • evict,
  • excise,
  • reject,
  • disallow,
  • expatriate,
  • disqualify,
  • ignore,
  • eliminate,
  • oust,
  • extradite,
  • blacklist,
  • renounce,
  • remove,
  • eradicate,
  • amputate.
  •officially forbid (verb)
  • restrict,
  • suppress.
  •prohibit (verb)
  • oppress,
  • preclude,
  • refuse,
  • disapprove,
  • curtail,
  • curb,
  • block,
  • control.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • embargo,
  • command,
  • rebuttal,
  • strike off,
  • nonacceptance.
  •
  • interdict,
  • objection.
  •
  • dismissal,
  • revolt.
  •
  • debar.
  •
  • resistance.
  •damning
  • damnation.
  •deny
  • spurn,
  • turn down,
  • Tabooing,
  • enjoin from,
  • say no to,
  • take exception to.
  •exclude
  • force out,
  • drive out,
  • lock out,
  • ward off,
  • leave out.
  •inhibit
  • taboo.
  •Other relevant words:
  • ouster,
  • dishonorable,
  • stamp out,
  • dim view,
  • ice out,
  • crafty,
  • fiat,
  • shrive,
  • thwart,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • displace,
  • anoint,
  • keep within bounds,
  • not hear of,
  • killing,
  • truncate,
  • chiliad,
  • crooked,
  • prune,
  • extinguish,
  • penalty,
  • evil eye,
  • Malison,
  • dispose,
  • do duty,
  • Debarring,
  • comminatory,
  • annihilate,
  • estoppel,
  • illegitimate,
  • pass up,
  • millennium,
  • balking,
  • complaint,
  • false,
  • suspension,
  • lockout,
  • termination,
  • forestalling,
  • hindering,
  • disregard,
  • forestall,
  • oath,
  • execration,
  • retaliation,
  • disingenuous,
  • criminalize,
  • narrowing,
  • unauthorized,
  • black,
  • crop,
  • barrier,
  • Uncountenanced,
  • shave,
  • aspersion,
  • thundering,
  • enucleate,
  • delimitation,
  • dishonest,
  • unhappiness,
  • cut away,
  • impediment,
  • condemnable,
  • alienate,
  • take exception,
  • hold up,
  • toss,
  • root out,
  • discontentment,
  • inhibiting,
  • veto,
  • tabu,
  • Index Expurgatorius,
  • ruling out,
  • illegal,
  • stop,
  • send down,
  • retard,
  • stay,
  • no-no,
  • sumptuary laws,
  • obstruct,
  • disagreement,
  • Restraining,
  • rule,
  • end,
  • defiant,
  • criminal,
  • Forefend,
  • unlicensed,
  • frustrate,
  • toss out,
  • Vetoing,
  • turndown,
  • FUGITATE,
  • impeding,
  • grand,
  • slow,
  • intercept,
  • object,
  • Disfellowship,
  • baptize,
  • man,
  • blockage,
  • demarcation,
  • disesteem,
  • conclusion,
  • close,
  • frustration,
  • illicit,
  • reprobation,
  • isolate,
  • barricade,
  • Estop,
  • toss away,
  • send away,
  • statute,
  • court,
  • frown upon,
  • cast aside,
  • dismiss,
  • discard,
  • eschew,
  • displeasure,
  • avoidance,
  • peel,
  • nip,
  • index librorum prohibitorum,
  • frown,
  • abort,
  • unlawful,
  • confirm,
  • delay,
  • sinister,
  • ostracization,
  • myriad,
  • limit,
  • blasphemy,
  • censorship,
  • obviate,
  • Predicting,
  • not permitted,
  • thrust out,
  • staving off,
  • inadmissibility,
  • Maranatha,
  • menacing,
  • foiling,
  • obviation,
  • warding off,
  • don't,
  • stopping,
  • obstacle,
  • imprison,
  • clip,
  • officiate,
  • close up,
  • zoning,
  • baulking,
  • put away,
  • Nonadmission,
  • chuck out,
  • Disallowing,
  • trillion,
  • abusive,
  • avoid,
  • mitigation,
  • negative,
  • redress,
  • ten thousand,
  • Prohibiting,
  • kill,
  • count out,
  • moratorium,
  • abandon,
  • thumbs-down,
  • curbing,
  • abortion,
  • fend off,
  • disfavor,
  • vituperation,
  • arresting,
  • discontent,
  • fraudulent,
  • slowing,
  • think little of,
  • Retarding,
  • billion,
  • punishment,
  • freeze,
  • indignation,
  • standstill,
  • vilification,
  • against the law,
  • banzai,
  • Obstructing,
  • vote against,
  • wipe out,
  • minacious,
  • repress,
  • baffle,
  • run out,
  • malocchio,
  • warn off,
  • cease,
  • interception,
  • forbidden fruit,
  • Outlawing,
  • enjoining,
  • million,
  • look askance at,
  • pass over,
  • mutilate,
  • pass by,
  • plum,
  • stoppage,
  • keep away,
  • quash,
  • ominous,
  • denunciation,
  • thousand,
  • repression,
  • hindrance,
  • protest,
  • exception,
  • disillusion,
  • beyond the pale,
  • keep,
  • anathema,
  • overlook,
  • abolish,
  • impede,
  • prohibited,
  • Checking,
  • impermissible,
  • unscrupulous,
  • edict,
  • shear,
  • circumscription,
  • throw out,
  • royal residence,
  • blacklisting,
  • affidavit,
  • take out,
  • disgruntlement,
  • discipline,
  • baulk,
  • omit,
  • index,
  • fulmination,
  • aborting,
  • charge,
  • disapprobation,
  • Blackballing,
  • lac,
  • disapprove of,
  • prohibitory order,
  • evade,
  • commination,
  • keep in,
  • controlling,
  • ten thousand years,
  • law,
  • deceitful,
  • blocking,
  • discontentedness,
  • lay hands on,
  • lawless,
  • threatening,
  • lop,
  • hinder,
  • halt,
  • hamper,
  • bob,
  • thwarting,
  • take off,
  • dissent,
  • pare,
  • Winze,
  • oppose,
  • guilty,
  • negate,
  • execrate,
  • outlawry,
  • disparagement,
  • not allow,
  • mitigate,
  • unthinkable,
  • sprinkle,
  • bound,
  • milliard,
  • maroon,
  • cashier,
  • opposition,
  • corrupt,
  • Avoiding,
  • nix,
  • disrespect,
  • anticipate,
  • omission,
  • Mitigating,
  • close down,
  • opposure,
  • contraband,
  • underhand,
  • rein,
  • frustrating,
  • arrest,
  • disable,
  • disenchantment,
  • cull,
  • disillusionment,
  • balk,
  • disappointment,
  • extirpate,
  • Delaying,
  • snub,
  • Interdicting,
  • barring,
  • fending off,
  • whammy,
  • Proscribing,
  • dip,
  • discharge,
  • pick out,
  • frown at,
  • distaste,
  • sinful,
  • cast away,
  • restraining order,
  • circumscribe,
  • Quashing,
  • anticipation,
  • Intercepting,
  • swearing,
  • cut,
  • impedance,
  • retribution,
  • dock,
  • Abscind,
  • bypass,
  • bridle,
  • cessation,
  • fling,
  • stave off,
  • hold back,
  • strip,
  • minatory,
  • deterrent,
  • obstruction,
  • censure,
  • retardation,
  • halting,
  • PROHIBITORY INJUNCTION,
  • shut,
  • debarment,
  • hex,
  • in terrorem,
  • throw away,
  • Cohibit,
  • minister,
  • Hampering,
  • foil.

Paraphrases for Ban:

• Equivalence

  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    prohibit.
  • Adjective
    banning.
  • Proper noun, singular
    banning, prohibit.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    banning, Outlawing, proscription, prohibit.
  • Verb, past participle
    prohibited.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    prohibit, proscribe.
  • Verb, base form
    Prohibiting, prohibit, proscribe, prohibits.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    sanctions.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    interdiction.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    injunction, interdiction.
  • Verb, base form
    interdict.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    embargo, prohibitive, restricted, no-fly.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Narcotics, embargo, prohibits.
  • Noun, plural
    Embargoes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    embargo, Restraining, inadmissibility, 'interdiction, closure, cessation.
  • Verb, past participle
    barred, blocked, phased.
  • Verb, base form
    ground, abolish, Abolishing, preclude.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    prohibited, nuclear-test-ban.
  • Proper noun, singular
    banned, Prohibiting, prohibited, nuclear-test-ban, bando.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    moratoria, Prohibiting, disqualification, banishment, suspension, nuclear-test-ban, curfew.
  • Verb, base form
    banish.

Antonyms for Ban:

• n.

  • official forbiddance
    permission, sanction, allowance.
  • Other antonyms:
    blessing, citation, commendation, accession, toleration, promotion, assent, benison, endorsement, agreement, sanctioning, compliance, benediction, obedience, imprimatur, acquiescence, encouragement, prescription, enabling, tolerance, submission, facilitation, approval, letting, approbation, support.

• v.

  • officially forbid
    push, release, welcome, permit, let go, include, admit, allow.

Homophones for Ban:

• boone, bobbin, benne, bunny, bayonne, banyan, behmen, bobby pin, bann, beano, benny, banh, bunyan, boann, bony, bemoan, benni, bema, bun, bohme, be on, bonnie, biome, buy in, baum, baboon, bevin, bine, boom, Byname, bennie, bunion, bovine, bauhinia, bohemia, bonny, boyne, banian, beef man, bone, bohemian, Bam, bioweapon, boffin, bum, beany, bonn, bowfin, bonhomie, boon, bpm, bean, beanie, bonney, banana, bahn, bane, ben, buffoon, bovini, boehm, boney, bahamian, baby boom, bowman, bovinae, boehme, beam, bin, bm, beamy, benin.

Holonyms for Ban:

• n.

  • quantity
    leu.

Hypernym for Ban:

• n.

  • communication
    enjoining, enjoinment, banning-order, injunction, interdiction, cease and desist order, interdict.

• v.

  • social
    embargo.

Hyponym for Ban:

• n.

  • communication
    edict, decree, order, rescript, fiat.
  • quantity
    Romanian Monetary Unit, Moldovan monetary unit.

• v.

  • communication
    interdict, nix, disallow, prohibit, veto, forbid, proscribe.
  • social
    criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, outlaw, illegalise.