Definition for Standstill:

• an interruption of normal activity

Synonyms for Standstill:

• n.

  •
  • failure.
  •
  • surcease.
  •cessation (noun)
  • termination,
  • abandonment,
  • cessation,
  • hiatus,
  • end,
  • discontinuance,
  • closure,
  • ending,
  • interruption.
  •deadlock (noun)
  • stalemate,
  • gridlock.
  •event (noun)
  • stand.
  •inaction (noun)
  • stagnation,
  • dormancy,
  • hibernation,
  • passiveness,
  • inaction,
  • immobility,
  • idleness,
  • lethargy,
  • rest.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • stasis,
  • avoidance,
  • evasion,
  • difficulty.
  •
  • delay,
  • quiescent,
  • discontinuation.
  •Other relevant words:
  • struggle,
  • logjam,
  • standpat,
  • deactivate,
  • fixed,
  • box,
  • viewpoint,
  • dam,
  • stern,
  • come to,
  • wait,
  • stops,
  • palsied,
  • dead end,
  • incessantly,
  • Ceasing,
  • bad,
  • strike,
  • disconnect,
  • cutoff,
  • draw,
  • nonplussed,
  • bond,
  • undisturbed,
  • ban,
  • hesitantly,
  • afterwards,
  • discontinue,
  • sleeping,
  • stem,
  • continually,
  • inactive,
  • quit,
  • link,
  • paralysis,
  • jerkily,
  • bar,
  • gun,
  • up a tree,
  • Unstop,
  • untraveled,
  • artless,
  • intromit,
  • Ceased,
  • inflexible,
  • stanch,
  • shut down,
  • relinquish,
  • depart,
  • uncertainly,
  • quiet,
  • quiescence,
  • mate,
  • endgame,
  • go,
  • at bay,
  • paralyzed,
  • switch off,
  • straightforward,
  • obstruct,
  • continuously,
  • ceases,
  • stock,
  • drop,
  • chaste,
  • suspension,
  • inactivity,
  • bottom,
  • ebbing,
  • tentatively,
  • everyday,
  • impede,
  • stick,
  • halting,
  • leave off,
  • rigorous,
  • stand-off,
  • tie,
  • cut,
  • stands,
  • suspend,
  • falteringly,
  • affiliation,
  • remit,
  • unendingly,
  • neat,
  • pack it in,
  • renounce,
  • frugal,
  • crippled,
  • usual,
  • transfix,
  • severe,
  • intermission,
  • restful,
  • absolute,
  • intermit,
  • thrown out,
  • irresolutely,
  • finally,
  • pass away,
  • peg,
  • plain,
  • prohibition,
  • restrain,
  • homely,
  • outage,
  • pure,
  • disable,
  • modest,
  • stagnant,
  • stationary,
  • prevent,
  • strict,
  • disintegrate,
  • wear away,
  • stable,
  • intense,
  • fetch up,
  • die-hard,
  • keep back,
  • boggle,
  • cul,
  • unassuming,
  • halts,
  • set,
  • becalm,
  • Moveless,
  • sit-down strike,
  • cataleptic,
  • extremity,
  • outdoor stage,
  • basic,
  • uncertain,
  • Brokenly,
  • for good,
  • stranded,
  • pin,
  • standoff,
  • sedentary,
  • paralyse,
  • abdicate,
  • unruffled,
  • hole,
  • self-destruct,
  • elementary,
  • resign,
  • waning,
  • stopes,
  • Stillstand,
  • stick fast,
  • bell,
  • cease,
  • desist,
  • bandstand,
  • break,
  • Hard-shell,
  • ascetic,
  • staunch,
  • Uti possidetis,
  • hold back,
  • calm,
  • silent,
  • grotesquely,
  • subsidence,
  • simple,
  • endlessly,
  • flounder,
  • base,
  • checkmate,
  • standpoint,
  • rack,
  • impasse,
  • irreconcilable,
  • incapacitate,
  • dying down,
  • hinder,
  • hard up,
  • arrest,
  • old-line,
  • cut short,
  • stuck fast,
  • derail,
  • barbarously,
  • work stoppage,
  • opposed to change,
  • unbending,
  • Vegetating,
  • immobilize,
  • fix,
  • block,
  • bring to,
  • freeze,
  • aground,
  • grinding halt,
  • lamely,
  • rigid,
  • stopped up,
  • conclusion,
  • intransigent,
  • haltingly,
  • die away,
  • booth,
  • graveled,
  • point of view,
  • grim,
  • unmoved,
  • uncompromising,
  • thwart,
  • austere,
  • basis,
  • power down,
  • at a standstill,
  • lock,
  • disturb,
  • immovable,
  • conservative,
  • preservative,
  • dead-end street,
  • Stoping,
  • arrive,
  • wane,
  • heavy,
  • blind alley,
  • puzzled,
  • vegetative,
  • becalmed,
  • indecisively,
  • still,
  • Gorgonize,
  • lay off,
  • stall,
  • standing still,
  • suppress,
  • tie up,
  • at a loss,
  • at rest,
  • check,
  • slow,
  • corner,
  • full stop,
  • straitened,
  • adjourn,
  • paralyze,
  • abandon,
  • hang,
  • interrupt,
  • cut-off,
  • crudely,
  • dead stop,
  • ceaselessly,
  • dead set,
  • motionless,
  • defer,
  • association,
  • close,
  • becalms,
  • turn off,
  • abeyance,
  • unceremonious,
  • stoppages,
  • Interpel,
  • unceasingly,
  • pedestal,
  • stay-at-home,
  • Becalming,
  • evacuate,
  • wear off,
  • pinched,
  • ebb,
  • halter,
  • sales booth,
  • stick at,
  • unsophisticated,
  • lace,
  • immotile,
  • nonplused,
  • stopping.

Paraphrases for Standstill:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    status-quo.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    stalemate, deadlock.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    stop.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    stand-by, suspended.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    impasse, dead-end, stopping, inertia, halting, palsy, pause, blocking, sluggishness, alley, adjournment, recession, death, deaths.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    moratorium, sufferance.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    stagnation, stand-off, logjam, paralysis, halt, stoppage, gridlock, standoff, stillness, moratorium, moratoria, immobility, discontinuation, cul-de-sac, stalling, cessation, slowdown, stasis, blockage, freeze, interruption, morass, stall, blockade, suspension, setback, treadmill, rut, judgment, shutdown, quagmire, neutral, arrest, slump, disruption.

Antonyms for Standstill:

• n.

  • stop
    breakthrough, advance, continuation, start, progress, agreement.

Homophones for Standstill:

• stand still.

Hyponym for Standstill:

• n.

  • event
    stop, halt.