prohibition

prohibition
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Act of forbidding
Nouns — prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance, disallowance, restriction (see restraint); veto, injunction, interdict[ion], proscription; preclusion, exclusion; embargo, ban, taboo, gag order, no-no, forbidden fruit; prevention, stoppage, hindrance; intemperance act, Volstead Act, Eighteenth Amendment, dry law. See illegality, moderation.
Verbs
1. prohibit, inhibit, forbid, disallow; veto, kill, ban, interdict; put or place under an interdiction or ban; taboo, proscribe, enjoin, deny, [de]bar, forfend; preclude, prevent, hinder; set or put one's foot down, have none of. Slang, spike.
2. exclude, shut out, padlock, keep out; draw the color line, discriminate; shut or bolt the door; warn off; forbid the banns; disbar, unfrock.
Adjectives
1. prohibitive, prohibitory, prohibiting, forbidding, etc.
2. prohibited, forbidden, verboten, not permitted; unauthorized, unlicensed, illegal; banned, contraband, taboo; out of bounds, off limits.
Adverbs — on no account (see negation).
Interjections — heaven forbid! hands off! keep off! keep out! hold! stop! avast! no thoroughfare! no trespassing!
Quotations — There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable (Mark Twain), Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise (Molière), I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts (Herman Melville).
Antonyms, see permission.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The act of prohibiting]
Syn. forbiddance, interdiction, prescription, ban, repudiation; see also refusal .
2. [Restrictions placed upon the handling or consumption of liquor; often capital ]
Syn. Volstead Act, temperance, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Amendment; the Noble Experiment*, the Lost Cause*, the Eighteenth Amusement*.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
ban, interdiction, proscription, nix, embargo, restriction, outlawing, disallowance, blockage, taboo.
ANT.: permission, allowance, authorization
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A refusal to allow: ban, disallowance, forbid-dance, inhibition, interdiction, proscription, taboo. See ALLOW.

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