Synonyms for stop
Another word for stop is halt, stoppage or stopover. Below are 23 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: stoped, stoper, stopes, stoping.
1. noun: the event of something ending
- halt synonyms
2. noun: the act of stopping something
- stoppage synonyms
3. noun: a brief stay in the course of a journey
- stopover
- layover
4. noun: the state of inactivity following an interruption
- stay synonyms
- check synonyms
- arrest synonyms
- halt synonyms
- hitch synonyms
- stoppage synonyms
5. noun: a spot where something halts or pauses
6. noun: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- stop consonant
- occlusive
- plosive speech sound
- plosive
- plosive consonant
7. noun: a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- point synonyms
- full point
- full stop
- period synonyms
8. noun: (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
9. noun: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- diaphragm synonyms
10. noun: a restraint that checks the motion of something
- catch synonyms
11. noun: an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- block synonyms
- closure synonyms
- stoppage synonyms
- blockage synonyms
- occlusion
12. verb: come to a halt, stop moving
- halt synonyms
Antonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- stand synonyms
- finish synonyms
- ending synonyms
- tie-up synonyms
- conclusion synonyms
- cessation
- standstill synonyms
- surcease
- act synonyms
- stand-down
- human action
- human activity
- deed synonyms
- hemostasis
- haemostasis
- standdown
- hemostasia
- haemostasia
- night-stop
- pit stop
- inaction
- inactivity synonyms
- logjam
- inactiveness
- countercheck
- place synonyms
- way station
- spot synonyms
- bus stop
- loading area
Stop in word games
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Questions people ask
What is another word for stop?
You can say halt, stoppage, stopover, layover or stay instead of stop. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the event of something ending".
What is the opposite of stop?
The opposite of stop is start.
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