Synonyms of enabling

enabling 1 of 2

noun

as in support

Synonyms & Similar Words

• support
• allowing
• encouragement
• promotion
• facilitation
• approval
• permitting
• okay
• letting
• indorsement
• granting
• approbation
• consent
• permission
• OK
• licence
• endorsement
• sanction
• licensing
• submission
• compliance
• clearance
• allowance
• leave
• imprimatur
• blessing
• acquiescence
• obedience
• sanctioning
• assent
• authorization
• licencing
• license
• tolerance
• agreement
• accession
• toleration
• prescription
• sufferance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• prohibition
• veto
• ban
• embargo
• interdiction
• interdict
• limitation
• restriction
• proscription
• inhibition
• restraint
• constraint
• taboo
• tabu
• no-no

enabling

2 of 2

verb

present participle of enable

1

as in letting

to make able or possible

my new glasses enable me to read the fine print

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in empowering

to give official or legal power to

a law that would enable the authorities to inspect food preparation areas for health code violations

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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