Synonyms of empowering

empowering

verb

present participle of empower

1

as in enabling

to give official or legal power to

the federal agency empowered to collect taxes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enabling
• authorizing
• qualifying
• investing
• commissioning
• allowing
• licensing
• certifying
• permitting
• entitling
• accrediting
• warranting
• vesting
• chartering
• affirming
• approving
• validating
• endorsing
• licencing
• sanctioning
• confirming
• inducting
• indorsing
• initiating
• installing
• letting
• credentialing
• inaugurating
• credentialling
• okaying
• privileging
• enfranchising
• clearing
• instating
• OK'ing
• swearing in

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• preventing
• denying
• disqualifying
• excluding
• discouraging
• inhibiting
• stopping
• hindering
• blocking
• impeding
• constraining
• obstructing
• banning
• disallowing
• prohibiting
• barring
• holding back
• forbidding
• shutting out
• enjoining
• disenfranchising
• proscribing
• outlawing
• disfranchising
• vetoing
• disbarring
• interdicting

2

as in letting

to make able or possible

workshops in financial management to empower workers to plan for their retirement

Synonyms & Similar Words

• enabling
• letting
• allowing
• permitting
• preparing
• equipping
• approving
• endorsing
• fitting
• qualifying
• habilitating
• sanctioning
• indorsing
• readying
• conditioning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• preventing
• inhibiting
• prohibiting
• precluding
• forbidding
• enjoining
• disallowing