Synonyms of enjoining

enjoining 1 of 2

noun

as in prohibiting

the act of ordering that something not be done or used

the enjoining of the use of all tobacco products by the director of the baseball camp

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prohibiting
• prohibition
• banning
• forbidding
• barring
• proscription
• proscribing
• interdiction
• outlawing
• interdicting
• suppression
• instruction
• charging
• bidding
• decreeing
• dictation
• direction
• discouragement
• deterrence
• dissuading
• repression
• compulsion
• coercion
• constraint
• force

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• permission
• approval
• allowance
• sanction
• support
• toleration
• endorsement
• license
• authorization
• promotion
• clearance
• sufferance
• encouragement
• compliance
• obedience
• submission

enjoining

2 of 2

verb

present participle of enjoin

1

as in demanding

to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority

police enjoined the community's full cooperation in getting rid of the drug dealers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• demanding
• requiring
• requesting
• commanding
• claiming
• asking
• wanting
• calling (for)
• pressing (for)
• insisting (on)
• clamoring (for)
• exacting
• needing
• imposing
• taking
• stipulating (for)
• necessitating
• questing
• warranting
• harassing
• pleading (for)
• crying (for)
• requisitioning
• badgering
• hounding
• dunning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• yielding
• giving up
• surrendering
• relinquishing

2

as in instructing

to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority

undeterred, the captain enjoined his crew to sail at full speed into the mine-filled harbor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• instructing
• ordering
• telling
• commanding
• asking
• directing
• begging
• bidding
• advising
• adjuring
• requesting
• petitioning
• charging
• warning
• requiring
• authorizing
• appointing
• bossing (around)
• entreating
• forcing
• beseeching
• assigning
• supervising
• coercing
• controlling
• managing
• leading
• compelling
• conducting
• obliging
• commissioning
• overseeing
• constraining
• counseling
• superintending

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• obeying
• following
• keeping
• observing
• complying (with)
• minding

3

as in forbidding

to order not to do or use or to be done or used

Quakerism enjoins the taking of human life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prohibiting
• forbidding
• banning
• outlawing
• preventing
• discouraging
• proscribing
• stopping
• halting
• barring
• excluding
• interdicting
• precluding
• restraining
• deterring
• curbing
• quashing
• dissuading
• suppressing
• repressing
• rejecting
• blocking
• subduing
• silencing
• depriving
• disallowing
• impeding
• quelling
• inhibiting
• hindering
• vetoing
• obstructing
• repudiating
• shutting out
• ruling out
• checking
• debarring
• squelching
• crushing
• squashing
• cracking down (on)
• clamping down (on)
• embargoing
• putting down
• bridling
• snuffing (out)
• reining (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• permitting
• allowing
• letting
• authorizing
• suffering
• approving
• endorsing
• sanctioning
• supporting
• promoting
• encouraging
• advancing
• warranting
• cultivating
• ordering
• furthering
• licensing
• commanding
• abetting
• forwarding
• nurturing
• bidding
• enduring
• bearing
• tolerating
• nourishing
• abiding
• countenancing
• brooking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of enjoining

Noun

The Central European country is not the slightest bit demure with its enjoining of would-be digital nomads. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 14 July 2026

The lawsuit asks the Ingham County Circuit Court to declare Kalshi's internet sports betting operation a common law nuisance and to issue a permanent injunction and order of abatement enjoining and restraining Kalshi from engaging in or advertising its internet sports betting operation in Michigan. — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 6 Mar. 2026

Verb

Smaller panels of judges on the 9th Circuit have blocked a federal district court judge's order enjoining the administration from making such threats. — Justin Papp,caleigh Keating,garrett Downs,kevin Breuninger,dan Mangan, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2026