Word Meanings - DETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc. Addison. Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty. Tillotson. My own face deters me from my glass. Prior. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DETER)

• Debar
• Exclude
• stop
• thwart
• obstruct
• hinder
• prevent
• deter
• deprive
• disqualify
• deny
• prohibit
• preclude
• Intimidate
• Frighten
• alarm
• threaten
• dishearten
• scare
• appall
• browbeat
• cow
• Repel
• Repulse
• reject
• refuse
• resist
• check
• Scare
• Terrify
• affright
• intimidate
• frighten
• dismay
• daunt
• Warn
• Premonish
• monish
• admonish
• notify
• dissuade

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DETER)

• Compose
• embolden
• reassure
• rally
• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Encourage
• inspirit
• assure
• allure
• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce

Related words: (words related to DETER)

• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• REPULSER
  One who repulses, or drives back.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• DAUNTER
  One who daunts.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.
• DEBARB
  To deprive of the beard. Bailey.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• INDULGEMENT
  Indulgence. Wood.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.