Obviate Synonyms and Antonyms

ŏbvē-āt
To prohibit from occurring by advance planning or action
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. avert
  2. forestall
  3. forfend
  4. preclude
  5. prevent
  6. rule out
  7. stave off
  8. ward
To keep from happening or render unnecessary.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. prevent

Words Related to Obviate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Obviate Sentence Examples

  • Climatic conditions obviate the necessity of any superfluity of clothing.

  • To obviate this catastrophe the British reformers set to work most energetically.

  • To obviate this defect, it has been recommended that ornamental plants should be formed into four or five separate suites of flowering, to be distributed over the garden.

  • To obviate the inconvenience of placing the telephone to the mouth and the ear alternately, two telephones were commonly used at each end, joined either parallel to each other or in series.

  • But this did not obviate the necessity for house - to-house inspection, and although the number of different points at which leakage occurred was still great, it was always small in relation to the number of houses which were necessarily entered by the inspector; moreover, when the best had been done that possibly could be done to suppress leakage due to domestic fittings, the leakage below ground in the mains, ferrules and service pipes still remained, and was often very great.

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