406 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ dɪtˈɛnʃən], [ dɪtˈɛnʃən], [ d_ɪ_t_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]

Similar words for detention:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• accusation (noun)
• act (noun)
• apprehension (noun)
• arrest (noun)
• confinement (noun)
• confinement, imprisonment (noun)
• delay (noun)
• detention (noun)
• imperviousness (noun)
• indictment (noun)
• insusceptibility (noun)
• lateness (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• resistance (noun)
• restraint (noun)
• retention (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• imprisonment
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for detention

Homophones for detention

Hyponyms for detention

Synonyms for Detention:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • physical condition.

• n.

  •
  • breathalyze,
  • retention,
  • apprehend,
  • book,
  • Breath Test,
  • bounty hunter,
  • body search.
  •
  • confiscate,
  • free,
  • banish,
  • charge,
  • ward,
  • kneecap,
  • Grounded.
  • accusation (noun)
  • indictment.
  • act (noun)
  • detention.
  • apprehension (noun)
  • collarings.
  • arrest (noun)
  • gloms,
  • pick ups,
  • re straining,
  • re-straining,
  • restrainings,
  • protective custodies,
  • pull ins,
  • sequesterings,
  • preventive custodies.
  • confinement (noun)
  • de limitation,
  • de limitations,
  • boundings,
  • constrainments,
  • de-limitations,
  • de-limitation,
  • immurations.
  • confinement, imprisonment (noun)
  • incarceration,
  • pickup,
  • time up the river,
  • hindrance,
  • Detainment,
  • withholding,
  • pinch,
  • holding back,
  • pen,
  • impediment,
  • immurement,
  • holding pen,
  • keeping in,
  • restraint,
  • nab,
  • Arrestation.
  • delay (noun)
  • de lay,
  • coolingoff periods,
  • cunctations,
  • sur cease,
  • prorogations,
  • dis-continuations,
  • coolingoff period,
  • dis continuation,
  • de-lay,
  • tieup,
  • loiterings,
  • de lays,
  • lingerings,
  • pro-rogation,
  • sur-cease,
  • retardments,
  • pro rogations,
  • de-lays,
  • sur ceases,
  • showstoppers,
  • putting offs,
  • demurrals,
  • re missions,
  • dis-continuation,
  • re-missions,
  • cooling-off periods,
  • re mission,
  • sur-ceases,
  • tarryings,
  • pro rogation,
  • cooling off period,
  • pro-rogations,
  • re-mission,
  • dawdlings,
  • cooling off periods,
  • dis continuations,
  • hold ups.
  • detention (noun)
  • hold.
  • imperviousness (noun)
  • un susceptibility,
  • un-susceptibilities,
  • un susceptibilities,
  • un-susceptibility.
  • indictment (noun)
  • in criminations,
  • in-criminations,
  • in crimination,
  • in-crimination.
  • insusceptibility (noun)
  • in susceptibility,
  • in-susceptibility,
  • in susceptibilities,
  • in-susceptibilities.
  • lateness (noun)
  • tardiness.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • lazaretto,
  • Retardment,
  • confinement,
  • constrainment,
  • gaffs,
  • presentment,
  • logjams,
  • searches,
  • surcease,
  • violence,
  • hold-up,
  • custody,
  • MITTS,
  • impeachment,
  • cunctation,
  • jailings,
  • hold-ups,
  • prosecution,
  • search,
  • hangup,
  • preventive custody,
  • duress,
  • logjam,
  • procrastination,
  • constraint,
  • impeachments,
  • mitt,
  • quarantine,
  • retardation,
  • internments,
  • internment,
  • run in,
  • bust,
  • cooling-off period,
  • demurral,
  • glom,
  • protective custody,
  • falls,
  • delay,
  • takings,
  • procrastinations,
  • lazarettos,
  • gaff,
  • delimitation,
  • apprehension,
  • showstopper,
  • presentments,
  • nick,
  • withholdings,
  • immuration,
  • pick up,
  • prorogation,
  • delimitations.
  • resistance (noun)
  • impedances,
  • striking back,
  • imperviousness,
  • impedance,
  • impeding.
  • restraint (noun)
  • collar,
  • inhibition,
  • bridle,
  • restriction,
  • blockage,
  • stricture,
  • constriction,
  • leash,
  • shackle,
  • tether,
  • control,
  • bondage.
  • retention (noun)
  • with holdings,
  • with holding,
  • with-holdings.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • arrest.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • preventive detention,
  • Botany Bay,
  • waterboarding.
  •
  • captive,
  • condemned.
  •
  • custodial,
  • resistance.
  •
  • inside.
  •
  • serve.
  •
  • fine,
  • stretch.
  •
  • term.
  •
  • ground.
  •
  • go down.
  • imprisonment
  • captivity.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • distract,
  • afterthought,
  • prevent,
  • fixation,
  • jail sentence,
  • justice,
  • choky,
  • pause,
  • demurrage,
  • lock up,
  • punishment,
  • Bridewell,
  • interim,
  • slowing,
  • penal institution,
  • hands,
  • cramp,
  • frustrate,
  • seizure,
  • penitentiary,
  • bar,
  • wait,
  • penal colony,
  • closure,
  • hold up,
  • Insusceptibility,
  • opposition,
  • stay of execution,
  • check,
  • law,
  • disappoint,
  • under suspicion,
  • annoying,
  • Irksome,
  • keep,
  • let,
  • interruption,
  • suspend,
  • hang-up,
  • fortress,
  • police,
  • respite,
  • slackening,
  • under a cloud,
  • gaol,
  • workhouse,
  • impede,
  • house of correction,
  • retaining,
  • blocking,
  • slowup,
  • aggravating,
  • lagging,
  • dam up,
  • contradict,
  • Hinderance,
  • prison house,
  • coop,
  • grasp,
  • station house,
  • drag,
  • capture,
  • suspected,
  • frustrating,
  • cargo hold,
  • handle,
  • bother,
  • bothersome,
  • close arrest,
  • closing up,
  • forbid,
  • station,
  • hulks,
  • black hole,
  • difficult,
  • obstruction,
  • durance,
  • slow up,
  • red-tapeism,
  • reprieve,
  • tollbooth,
  • time lag,
  • postpone,
  • stronghold,
  • slowdown,
  • appreciation,
  • flagging,
  • red-tapery,
  • Hampering,
  • clutches,
  • squeeze,
  • imprisonment,
  • stocks,
  • storage area,
  • accused,
  • nuisance value,
  • house arrest,
  • donjon,
  • Holdback,
  • stoppage,
  • stir,
  • letdown,
  • stop,
  • maddening,
  • clutch,
  • suppression,
  • ease up,
  • limbo,
  • suspension,
  • disconcert,
  • clench,
  • clasp,
  • defeat,
  • occlusion,
  • setback,
  • pound,
  • inclosure,
  • watch house,
  • jailing,
  • tedious,
  • dragging,
  • Detainer,
  • pokey,
  • tie up,
  • keep in custody,
  • correctional institution,
  • handgrip,
  • poky,
  • bureaucratic delay,
  • encumber,
  • hindering,
  • avert,
  • stay,
  • slowness,
  • fold,
  • servitude,
  • slack up,
  • Arrestment,
  • reformatory,
  • reform school,
  • deter,
  • annoy,
  • block,
  • slammer,
  • cage,
  • grip,
  • interference,
  • Renitency,
  • disconcerting,
  • jug,
  • bind,
  • defensive,
  • oubliette,
  • Thana,
  • penal settlement,
  • tenacity,
  • cell,
  • discourage,
  • jam,
  • prison sentence,
  • circumvent,
  • Renitence,
  • Panopticon,
  • repression,
  • chokey,
  • Calaboose,
  • cargo deck,
  • Clogging,
  • in custody,
  • letup,
  • halt,
  • lockup,
  • avoid,
  • Bilboes,
  • prison,
  • blockade,
  • Archaicbridewell,
  • den,
  • gripe,
  • guardroom,
  • moratorium,
  • deferment,
  • dissuade,
  • cargo area,
  • remand home,
  • bastille,
  • remand,
  • Quod,
  • negativism,
  • lag,
  • slavery,
  • stranglehold,
  • foot-dragging,
  • irritating,
  • can,
  • arresting,
  • obstructionism,
  • dungeon,
  • enslavement,
  • cooler,
  • CHE approved school,
  • aggravate,
  • oppose,
  • counteract,
  • clink,
  • anxiety,
  • ease off,
  • deceleration,
  • baffle,
  • durance vile,
  • Discomfiting,
  • discomfit,
  • postponement,
  • clip,
  • holdup,
  • infuriating.

Paraphrases for Detention:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Detainment, jailing.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    detentions.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    penitentiary, Penitentiaries, Migrants, checks, controls, therapies.
  • Noun, plural
    halts, suspects.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    abduction, accommodation, concentration, deportation, gaol, immobilisation, impoundment, isolation, penitentiary, reservation, residence, seclusion, Apprehending, Reclusion, Sentencing, Institutionalization, institutionalisation.
  • Verb, past tense
    kept, released, Had, Nabbed.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    confining, impounding, seizing, Apprehending, Possessing.
  • Verb, past participle
    apprehended, kept, locked, spent, Detained, Indicted, Sentenced, Served.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    arrest, custodial, detainee, remand, Detained.
  • Proper noun, singular
    arrest, confinement, custodial, detainee, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, prison, remand, retention, Detained, Detaining, Prisons, arrests, orders, detainees.
  • Noun, plural
    Prisons, arrests, detainees.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    arrest, captivity, confinement, deprivation, detainee, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, prison, remand, retention, sequestration, Detained, Detaining, detainees.
  • Verb, past tense
    custodial, imprisonment, retention, Detained.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Detaining.
  • Verb, past participle
    imprisonment.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    detains.
  • Verb, base form
    arrest.

Homophones for Detention:

• denomination, de-iodination, demimondaine, deamination, downtime, dimetane, damnation, demotion, downtown, dindymene, denotatum, dentin, donation, detention home, domitian, denudation, detonation, domination, diamantine, dentition, domatium, Dama Dama, dantean, danton, diminution, denotation, dentine, dumdum, down town.

Hyponym for Detention:

• n.

  • act
    penalization, penalty, penalisation, punishment.