barring

The word “barring” has 2 syllables: bar-ring

It's pronounced as /ˈbær.ɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for barring?

In the thesaurus, “barring” has 113 synonyms and 63 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for barring along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for barring

  • apart from
  • aside from
  • banding
  • banishing
  • banning
  • bar
  • barricading
  • beside
  • besides
  • bidding
  • blackballing
  • blacklisting
  • blazing
  • blockading
  • blocking
  • bolting
  • bridling
  • but
  • but for
  • ceasing
  • charging
  • checking
  • checking off
  • closing out
  • coercion
  • compulsion
  • constraint
  • crushing
  • curbing
  • debarring
  • decreeing
  • deporting
  • depriving
  • deterrence
  • deterring
  • dictation
  • diking
  • direction
  • disallowing
  • discontinuing
  • discounting
  • discouragement
  • discouraging
  • disregarding
  • dissuading
  • eliminating
  • embargoing
  • enjoining
  • except
  • except for
  • excepting
  • excluding
  • exclusive of
  • excommunicating
  • exiling
  • expelling
  • fencing
  • forbidding
  • force
  • freezing out
  • gating
  • guarding
  • halting
  • hedging
  • hindering
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • instruction
  • interdicting
  • interdiction
  • locking
  • obstructing
  • obviating
  • ostracizing
  • other than
  • ousting
  • outlawing
  • outside
  • outside of
  • precluding
  • preventing
  • prohibiting
  • prohibition
  • proscribing
  • proscription
  • putting down
  • quashing
  • quelling
  • rejecting
  • repressing
  • repression
  • repudiating
  • restraining
  • ruling out
  • save
  • save for
  • saving
  • short of
  • shutting out
  • silencing
  • squashing
  • squelching
  • staving off
  • stopping
  • streaking
  • striping
  • subduing
  • suppressing
  • suppression
  • suspending
  • throwing out
  • vetoing
  • with the exception of

Antonyms for barring

Meanings of barring

  • verb
    1. To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
    2. To prohibit.
    3. To lock or bolt with a bar.
    4. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
  • noun
    1. (collective) Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars.
    2. The act of fitting or closing something with bars.
    3. The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
    4. Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.
    5. The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather.
  • preposition
    1. Unless something happens; excepting; in the absence of.

Example Sentences

  • Barring any delays, the train will arrive on time.
  • We will go hiking tomorrow, barring bad weather.
  • Barring unforeseen circumstances, the event will proceed as planned.
  • Barring any objections, the proposal will be approved.
  • The store is open daily, barring public holidays.

On this page you'll find 176 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to barring, such as: abetting, abiding, accepting, admitting, advancing, allowance, allowing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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jailing

  • accommodation
  • apprehending
  • apprehension
  • appropriation
  • arresting
  • bag
  • barring
  • binding
  • booby trap
  • bust
  • busting
  • captivity
  • capture
  • capturing
  • catching
  • collar
  • commitment
  • committing
  • confinement
  • confining
  • constraining
  • constraint
  • crimp
  • detaining
  • detention
  • drop
  • enchaining
  • fall
  • fettering
  • gaff
  • gating
  • glom
  • grab
  • handcuffing
  • heat
  • holding
  • hook
  • immuring
  • impounding
  • impressing
  • imprisoning
  • imprisonment
  • incarcerating
  • incarceration
  • interning
  • jugging
  • keeping
  • limiting
  • locking up
  • manacling
  • mitt
  • nab
  • nabbing
  • nail
  • nick
  • nip
  • pick up
  • picking up
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • pinching
  • preventive custody
  • protective custody
  • pull
  • pull in
  • quarantining
  • restraining
  • restricting
  • run-in
  • seizing
  • sequestering
  • shackling
  • shanghaiing
  • shutting
  • snare
  • sweep
  • trammeling
  • trammelling

keeping clear of

  • averting
  • avoiding
  • banning
  • barring
  • bypassing
  • circumventing
  • debarring
  • deflecting
  • diverting
  • dodging
  • ducking
  • eliminating
  • eluding
  • escaping
  • eschewing
  • evading
  • excepting
  • excluding
  • fighting shy of
  • finessing
  • foiling
  • foxing
  • frustrating
  • getting around
  • missing
  • obviating
  • outfoxing
  • outsmarting
  • outwitting
  • overreaching
  • parrying
  • precluding
  • preventing
  • ruling out
  • scaping
  • shaking
  • shirking
  • shunning
  • skirting
  • staying clear of
  • steering clear of
  • thwarting

tackling

  • addressing
  • approaching
  • arrest
  • attacking
  • background
  • backseat driving
  • barging in
  • barring
  • blocking
  • checking
  • choking
  • clashing
  • clogging
  • conflict
  • facing
  • going at
  • hampering
  • having at
  • hindrance
  • intermeddling
  • interposition
  • intervention
  • intrusion
  • lighting into
  • meddlesomeness
  • obstruction
  • opposition
  • pitching in
  • pitching into
  • prying
  • pursuing
  • resistance
  • retardation
  • sailing into
  • taking up
  • tampering
  • tearing into
  • trespassing
  • undertaking

baffling

  • abashing
  • abstruse
  • absurd
  • addling
  • agitating
  • arresting
  • asinine
  • averting
  • avoidance
  • balking
  • bamboozling
  • barring
  • beating
  • befogging
  • befuddling
  • beguiling
  • bemusing
  • bewildering
  • beyond one
  • bizarre
  • blocking
  • bothering
  • buffaloing
  • chagrining
  • checking
  • checkmate
  • checkmating
  • choppy
  • circumvention
  • clogging
  • confounding
  • confused
  • confusing
  • conquering
  • counteracting
  • cozening
  • crossing
  • curious
  • debarment
  • deceiving
  • defeating
  • deluding
  • determent
  • deterrence
  • difficult to understand
  • discombobulating
  • discomfiting
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disconcerting
  • disconnected
  • discountenancing
  • disjointed
  • dismaying
  • disordered
  • disorderly
  • disorganized
  • disorienting
  • disquieting
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • duping
  • eccentric
  • embarrassing
  • encumbering
  • enigmatic
  • enjoining
  • fallacious
  • fazing
  • fettering
  • flummoxing
  • flustering
  • foiling
  • fooling
  • foolish
  • forbidding
  • forestalling
  • forestallment
  • foxing
  • frustrating
  • frustration
  • fuddling
  • getting
  • graveling
  • gravelling
  • gulling
  • halting
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • hard to understand
  • hindering
  • hoaxing
  • hobbling
  • holding back
  • hoodwinking
  • humbugging
  • illogical
  • impeding
  • incoherent
  • incomprehensible
  • inconsistent
  • inexplicable
  • inhibiting
  • interdicting
  • interdiction
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • manacling
  • mazing
  • meaningless
  • misguiding
  • misleading
  • mortifying
  • muddled
  • muddling
  • muddying
  • mystifying
  • negating
  • negation
  • neutralization
  • neutralizing
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • nonsensical
  • nullification
  • nullifying
  • nutty
  • obstructing
  • obviating
  • odd
  • offsetting
  • outlandish
  • outlawing
  • overcoming
  • peculiar
  • perplexing
  • perturbing
  • posing
  • precluding
  • preposterous
  • preventing
  • prevention
  • prohibiting
  • prohibition
  • proscribing
  • proscription
  • puzzling
  • rattling
  • ridiculous
  • screwy
  • senseless
  • setting back
  • shackling
  • short-circuiting
  • silly
  • snowing
  • stalling
  • sticking
  • stopping
  • strange
  • stringing along
  • stumping
  • stunning
  • taking in
  • thwarting
  • tieing up
  • trammeling
  • trammelling
  • tricking
  • tying up
  • unaccountable
  • unclear
  • unconnected
  • unconvincing
  • unexplainable
  • unfathomable
  • unhinging
  • unorganized
  • unreasonable
  • unsettling
  • unsound
  • unusual
  • upsetting
  • vexing
  • weird
  • weirding out

dappling

  • banding
  • barring
  • bespattering
  • blotching
  • blotting
  • dotting
  • dyeing
  • flecking
  • freckling
  • interspersing
  • marbling
  • mottling
  • peppering
  • setting
  • shooting
  • spattering
  • specking
  • speckling
  • splotching
  • spotting
  • sprinkling
  • staining
  • stippling
  • streaking
  • striping
  • studding

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