Exact Match:
- dissuasive
- deterring from action; "dissuasive advice"; "made a slight dissuasive gesture with her hand"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- abusive,
- admonitory,
- bludgeoning,
- blustering,
- browbeating,
- bulldozing,
- bullying,
- cautionary,
- comminatory,
- denunciatory,
- deterrent,
- discouraging,
- disinclining,
- dissuading,
- dissuasive,
- expostulatory,
- fear-inspiring,
- foreboding,
- hectoring,
- imminent,
- lowering,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- monitory,
- ominous,
- terroristic,
- terrorizing,
- threatening,
- threatful
- discouraging
collapse - depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
- expressing disapproval related words >
- admonitory,
- alarming,
- awing,
- black,
- bleak,
- cautionary,
- chilling,
- daunting,
- depressant,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- disconcerting,
- disheartening,
- disinclining,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- disquieting,
- dissuading,
- dissuasive,
- down,
- dreary,
- expostulatory,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- hindering,
- intimidating,
- monitory,
- oppressive,
- overawing,
- preclusive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- prophylactic,
- scaring,
- scary,
- startling
- admonishing,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- augural,
- cautionary,
- cautioning,
- communicative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- counseling,
- critical,
- deterrent,
- didactic,
- directive,
- discouraging,
- disinclining,
- dissuading,
- dissuasive,
- educational,
- educative,
- enlightening,
- exemplary,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- forerunning,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- heavy with meaning,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- informational,
- informative,
- informing,
- instructive,
- intimidating,
- intuitive,
- meaningful,
- monitorial,
- moralistic,
- moralizing,
- notificational,
- notifying,
- preachy,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- sententious,
- significant,
- warning
- deterrent
collapse
- tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices" related words >
- admonishing,
- admonitory,
- alarming,
- awing,
- bar,
- block,
- blockade,
- bottleneck,
- catch,
- cautionary,
- cautioning,
- check,
- chill,
- chilling,
- cold water,
- cordon,
- curtain,
- damp,
- damper,
- daunting,
- determent,
- deterring,
- difficulty,
- disconcerting,
- discouragement,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- disincentive,
- disinclining,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- dissuading,
- dissuasion,
- dissuasive,
- drawback,
- exemplary,
- expostulatory,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- hang-up,
- hazard,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hurdle,
- impediment,
- intimidating,
- joker,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- notificational,
- notifying,
- objection,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- one small difficulty,
- overawing,
- preclusive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- prophylactic,
- rub,
- scaring,
- scary,
- snag,
- startling,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- warning,
- wet blanket
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