Barrier

Noun

 * 1) A structure that bars passage.
 * 2) An obstacle or impediment.
 * 3) A boundary or limit.

Adjectives for Barrier
golden; external; sufficient; insuperable; material; formidable; subjective; effective; feeble; obstinate; intervening; screening; conventional; fancied; invisible; insurmountable; stair-like; impassable; airy; serried; dismal; ancient; irregular; surf-beaten; absolute;  stout; invincible;powerful; unconquerable; mighty; impenetrable; awesome; lofty; serious; eternal; natural; legal; psychological; economic; cultural; vast; lowered; inadequate; stubborn; artificial; puerile; indefinable; pitiless; traditional; countless (plural); imagined.

Verbs for Barrier
beat—; build—; burst—; confine by—; create—; cross—; erect—; flatten against—; follow—; form—; hurdle—; hurl against—; jump—; rail in with —s; smash—; step over—; strengthen—; surmount—; tear down—; vault—; —bounds; —hinders; —isolates; —limits; —looms; —obstructs; —prevents; —supports; —thwarts.

Synonyms for Barrier
bulwark, bar, prohibition, obstacle, rampart, restriction, hindrance, blockade, obstruction.

Antonyms
admittance, thoroughfare, opening, entrance, passage.

Thesaurus
abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, balustrade, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bolt, boom, bottleneck, boundary, brattice, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bulwark, bumper, casemate, cecum, cheval-de-frise, choking, choking off, circumvallation, clog, cloison, cofferdam, collision mat, congestion, constipation, contravallation, costiveness, counterscarp, cul-de-sac, curtain, cushion, dam, dead end, defense, demibastion, diaphragm, dike, dissepiment, ditch, dividing line, dividing wall, division, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, embolism, embolus, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fender, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, frontier, gate, glacis, gorge, gravity dam, groin, ha-ha, hindrance, hydraulic-fill dam, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, interseptum, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, limit, lock, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, mat, merlon, midriff, midsection, milldam, moat, mole, mound, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, outwork, pad, padlock, palisade, panel, parados, parapet, paries, partition, party wall, portcullis, postern gate, property line, rail, railing, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, sealing off, seawall, separation, septulum, septum, shock pad, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, stop, stoppage, strangulation, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

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Derived terms

 * crash barrier
 * diffusion-barrier
 * half-barrier
 * sound barrier
 * tilt barrier
 * toll barrier