Word Meanings - STOPPAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STOPPAGE)

• Embargo
• Restraint
• detention
• prohibition
• stoppage
• Prevention
• Obstruction
• interruption
• hinderance
• Suspense
• Protraction
• uncertainty
• doubt
• solicitude
• cessation
• pause
• waiting
• intermission
• discontinuance
• abeyance
• indetermination
• indecision

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STOPPAGE)

• Decide
• determine
• resolve
• assent

Related words: (words related to STOPPAGE)

• WAITINGLY
  By waiting.
• ASSENTATORY
  Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
• STOPPAGE
  The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
• ASSENTER
  One who assents.
• DOUBTFULLY
  In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• DETENTION
  1. The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding. 2. The state of being detained ; delay from necessity. 3. Confinement; restraint; custody. The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court. Hallam.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• ASSENTMENT
  Assent; agreement.
• DOUBT
  duten, douten, OF. duter, doter, douter, F. douter, fr. L. dubitare; 1. To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or
• RESOLVED
  Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. That makes him a resolved enemy. Jer. Taylor. I am resolved she shall not settle here. Fielding.
• DECIDEDLY
  In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• INTERMISSION
  The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. 4. Intervention; interposition. Heylin. Syn. --
• DECIDED
  1. Free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage. "A more decided taste for science." Prescott. 2. Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive;
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• REDOUBT
  reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected
• TWAITE
  A European shad; -- called also twaite shad. See Shad.
• PRERESOLVE
  To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering.
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
• DISASSENT
  To dissent.