All barrier synonyms

noun barrier

• fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• roadblock — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
• blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
• obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
• barricade — A barricade is a line of vehicles or other objects placed across a road or open space to stop people getting past, for example during street fighting or as a protest.
• hurdle — a portable barrier over which contestants must leap in certain running races, usually a wooden frame with a hinged inner frame that swings down under impact to prevent injury to a runner who does not clear it.
• railing — a bar of wood or metal fixed horizontally for any of various purposes, as for a support, barrier, fence, or railing.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
• restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
• stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• moat — a deep, wide trench, usually filled with water, surrounding the rampart of a fortified place, as a town or a castle.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• fortification — the act of fortifying or strengthening.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
• gully — a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
• bound — Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
• trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
• rampart — Fortification. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. such an elevation together with the parapet.
• curtain — Curtains are large pieces of material which you hang from the top of a window.
• confines — limits; boundaries
• ditch — a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
• pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
• limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• preventive — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
• sticking point — a point, detail, or circumstance causing or likely to cause a stalemate or impasse: The bill would have gone through the Senate quickly but for one sticking point.
• obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• blank wall — an impassable barricade or obstacle; a situation in which further progress is impossible: Attempts to get information by questioning the neighbors ran into a blank wall.