Synonyms for Retardation:

• n.

  •
  • obstacle,
  • hindrance.
  •
  • insanity.
  •
  • time,
  • help.
  •backwardness (noun)
  • mental deficiency,
  • abnormality,
  • idiocies,
  • mental retardation,
  • Mental Deficiencies.
  •deceleration (noun)
  • deceleration.
  •delay (noun)
  • jam,
  • bind.
  •impediment (noun)
  • barricade,
  • detriment,
  • trammel,
  • disadvantage,
  • hurdle,
  • restraint,
  • cramp,
  • drawback,
  • prohibition,
  • hazard,
  • restriction,
  • hitch,
  • stumbling block,
  • bottleneck,
  • defect,
  • stricture,
  • curb,
  • load,
  • flaw,
  • clog,
  • encumbrance,
  • fault,
  • tie,
  • barrier,
  • manacle,
  • shackle,
  • blockage,
  • snag,
  • handicap,
  • block,
  • difficulty,
  • chain,
  • deterrent,
  • burden,
  • red tape,
  • catch-22,
  • bar.
  •imperviousness (noun)
  • immunity,
  • unsusceptibility,
  • Insusceptibility.
  •insusceptibility (noun)
  • in susceptibility,
  • in-susceptibility,
  • in-susceptibilities,
  • in susceptibilities.
  •interference (noun)
  • backseat driving,
  • arrest,
  • blocking,
  • conflict,
  • Checking,
  • trespassing,
  • intrusion,
  • Clogging,
  • tampering,
  • barring,
  • clashing,
  • background,
  • tackling,
  • prying,
  • intervention,
  • choking,
  • Hampering,
  • opposition,
  • barging in.
  •lag (noun)
  • lag.
  •lateness (noun)
  • protraction,
  • slowness,
  • tardiness,
  • prolongation.
  •loss (noun)
  • catastrophe,
  • hurt,
  • losings,
  • losses,
  • bad luck,
  • forfeiture,
  • mishap,
  • disappearance,
  • calamity,
  • casualty,
  • disaster,
  • want,
  • shrinkage,
  • undoing,
  • privation,
  • Misplacing,
  • impairment,
  • debt,
  • harm,
  • deprivation,
  • need,
  • failure,
  • ruin,
  • misadventure,
  • accident,
  • deficiency,
  • bereavement,
  • cataclysm,
  • trouble,
  • injury,
  • damage,
  • fall,
  • squandering,
  • destruction,
  • misplacement,
  • sacrifice,
  • dispossession,
  • death,
  • destitution,
  • defeat,
  • wreckage,
  • debit,
  • fatality,
  • losing,
  • waste,
  • perdition,
  • depletion,
  • cost,
  • trial,
  • Mislaying.
  •resistance (noun)
  • counteraction,
  • safeguard,
  • protecting,
  • striking back,
  • defiance,
  • fight,
  • friction,
  • rebuff,
  • shield,
  • stand,
  • cover,
  • Parrying,
  • intransigence,
  • contention,
  • battle,
  • imperviousness,
  • screen,
  • impedances,
  • combat,
  • watch,
  • Withstanding,
  • struggle,
  • refusal,
  • support.
  •retardation (noun)
  • Loitering,
  • putting off,
  • tie-up,
  • lingering.
  •slowdown (noun)
  • drop,
  • stagnation,
  • downturn,
  • freeze,
  • slack,
  • strike,
  • inactivity,
  • decelerations,
  • falloff,
  • drop-off,
  • decline,
  • slow-up,
  • downtrend.
  •slowness (noun)
  • lethargy,
  • plodding,
  • sluggishness,
  • leisureliness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Detainment.
  •
  • imbecility,
  • paralysis,
  • idiocy,
  • wall,
  • discouragement,
  • holdup.
  •
  • frustration,
  • interruption,
  • resistance.
  •
  • obstruction,
  • sabotage,
  • stoppage.
  •Other relevant words:
  • controlling,
  • deter,
  • discontinuation,
  • dishearten,
  • derelict,
  • deliberateness,
  • interdiction,
  • simpleness,
  • contrary,
  • awkward,
  • cumber,
  • claudication,
  • negativism,
  • Obstructing,
  • coarctation,
  • Avoiding,
  • problem,
  • Deferring,
  • stop,
  • setback,
  • retardant,
  • foiling,
  • hold up,
  • interfere,
  • Retarding,
  • deferral,
  • obstructive,
  • late,
  • counteract,
  • forbiddance,
  • dragging,
  • hindering,
  • thought control,
  • doldrums,
  • anticipation,
  • delinquent,
  • cessation,
  • suppression,
  • slowing,
  • holdover,
  • slow up,
  • mongolianism,
  • reprieve,
  • Intercepting,
  • prohibit,
  • protection,
  • subnormality,
  • Mitigating,
  • interception,
  • postponement,
  • dam up,
  • perturb,
  • simplemindedness,
  • protective tariff,
  • halting,
  • closure,
  • Interdicting,
  • embarrass,
  • downshift,
  • meddlesome,
  • bureaucratic delay,
  • high time,
  • keep from,
  • fixation,
  • unhurriedness,
  • embarrassment,
  • curtailment,
  • respite,
  • deliberation,
  • due,
  • remiss,
  • occlusion,
  • cumbersome,
  • stay of execution,
  • resist,
  • tie up,
  • obstructionism,
  • Oppilation,
  • confuse,
  • slackening,
  • holding,
  • overdue,
  • stalemate,
  • mongoloid,
  • inhibiting,
  • neglectful,
  • let,
  • adjournment,
  • awkwardness,
  • cooling down,
  • Interclusion,
  • mitigation,
  • red-tapeism,
  • moronity,
  • agitate,
  • enjoining,
  • simplicity,
  • suspension,
  • interdict,
  • prevent,
  • halt,
  • restrain,
  • outstanding,
  • red-tapery,
  • prohibitive,
  • baffle,
  • restraint of trade,
  • constriction,
  • leeway,
  • remission,
  • banning,
  • stupidity,
  • self-control,
  • thwarting,
  • rationing,
  • interval,
  • injunction,
  • Preventing,
  • lagging,
  • inconvenient,
  • half-wittedness,
  • aborting,
  • downtime,
  • filibuster,
  • mongolism,
  • debarment,
  • Renitence,
  • flagging,
  • preclusion,
  • hold back,
  • ease up,
  • frustrating,
  • Renitency,
  • Impedition,
  • delayed,
  • hang-up,
  • check,
  • cretinism,
  • retard,
  • preclude,
  • cooling,
  • curbing,
  • baulking,
  • Hinderance,
  • moratorium,
  • Holdback,
  • unaccommodating,
  • forbidding,
  • retardent,
  • dawdling,
  • blockade,
  • Tabooing,
  • oppose,
  • amentia,
  • staving off,
  • squeeze,
  • forbid,
  • clumsiness,
  • Delaying,
  • slowup,
  • Tarrying,
  • uncooperative,
  • monopoly,
  • ineptitude,
  • afterthought,
  • detention,
  • Restraining,
  • disturb,
  • embolus,
  • obstruct,
  • mental defectiveness,
  • demurrage,
  • nuisance value,
  • abortion,
  • maladroitness,
  • obviation,
  • balking,
  • distract,
  • retrenchment,
  • arrested development,
  • Delation,
  • meantime,
  • ban,
  • Debarring,
  • stall,
  • letup,
  • fending off,
  • time lag,
  • embolism,
  • control,
  • closing up,
  • prevention,
  • impedance,
  • warding off,
  • wait,
  • infarct,
  • stopping,
  • detain,
  • drag,
  • forestalling,
  • taboo,
  • ease off,
  • impede,
  • proscription,
  • foot-dragging,
  • letdown,
  • avoidance,
  • Arrestation,
  • pause,
  • ineptness,
  • arresting,
  • interrupt,
  • inhibit,
  • Prohibiting,
  • blithering idiocy,
  • Idiotism,
  • protectionism,
  • stay,
  • infantilism,
  • frustrate,
  • Arrestment,
  • Proscribing,
  • balk,
  • repression,
  • cooling off,
  • impeding,
  • baulk,
  • baffling,
  • rein,
  • trespass on,
  • tardy,
  • slack up,
  • meanwhile,
  • constraint,
  • federal case,
  • Oppilative,
  • stranglehold,
  • belated,
  • holding pattern,
  • troublesome,
  • swiftness,
  • discourage,
  • interim,
  • latency.

Paraphrases for Retardation:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    backwardness, under-development.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    retard.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    retard.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deceleration, lag, lags, slowdown, behind, downturn, disadvantage, postponement, infirmity.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    delay, Delays.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    underdevelopment, tardiness, lateness, backlog, slippage, Delaying, stunting, delay.

Antonyms for Retardation:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    quickening, hastening.

Homophones for Retardation:

• radio radiation, radar dome, rotterdam, reiteration, ride herd on.

Hyponym for Retardation:

• n.

  • time
    hold, delay, wait, postponement, time lag.