deter
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
try to prevent; show opposition to
We should discourage this practice among our youth
Types & categories
- disapprove hypernym
Related & opposite
- deterrence derivation
- discouragement derivation
- hindrance derivation
- deterrent derivation
Sense 2 verb
turn away from by persuasion
Negative campaigning will only dissuade people
Types & categories
- counsel hypernym
- talk out of hyponym
Related & opposite
- persuade antonym
- dissuasion derivation
- dissuasion derivation
- determent derivation
- deterrent derivation
- dissuasive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | deterrence |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | discouragement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hindrance |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | deterrent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disapprove |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | persuade |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissuasion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissuasion |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | determent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | deterrent |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissuasive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | counsel |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | talk out of |