Synonyms of the word blackball


BLACKBALLBAN - BANISH - BARRING - CONTRADICT - CONTROVERT - EJECTION - EXCLUSION - EXPEL - EXPULSION - NEGATIVE - OPPOSE - OSTRACISE - OSTRACIZE - RIDDANCE - SHUN - VETO

blackball

  • n. A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
  • n. A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
  • n. The act of so rejecting someone.
  • n. A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
  • n. A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
  • v. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
  • v. (transitive) To ostracize.

ban

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
  • v. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
  • v. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
  • v. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
  • v. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
  • n. prohibition.
  • n. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to…
  • n. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable…
  • n. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
  • n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid…
  • n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
  • n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
  • n. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms…
  • n. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th…

banish

  • v. (heading) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
  • v. To expel, especially from the mind.

barring

  • v. present participle of bar.
  • n. the exclusion of someone; blackballing.
  • prep. Unless something happens; excepting; in the absence of.

contradict

  • v. (obsolete) To speak against; to forbid.
  • v. To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).
  • v. To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person).
  • v. To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.

controvert

  • v. (transitive) To dispute or argue using reason.
  • v. (intransitive) To be involved or engaged in controversy.

ejection

  • n. The act of ejecting.

exclusion

  • n. The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.
  • n. (obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out.
  • n. An item not covered by an insurance policy.

expel

  • v. To eject or erupt.
  • v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
  • v. (transitive) To deport.

expulsion

  • n. The act of expelling or the state of being expelled.

negative

  • adj. not positive or neutral.
  • adj. (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles.
  • adj. (mathematics) of number, less than zero.
  • adj. (linguistics, logic) denying a proposition.
  • adj. damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
  • adj. pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.).
  • adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of right…
  • adj. (chemistry) metalloidal; nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
  • adj. (New Age jargon) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, unpleasant,…
  • adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
  • n. refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition.
  • n. (law) a right of veto.
  • n. (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
  • n. (grammar) a word that indicates negation.
  • n. (mathematics) a negative quantity.
  • n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is…
  • n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
  • v. To veto; to refuse.
  • v. To contradict.
  • v. To disprove.
  • v. To make ineffective, neutralize.
  • interj. (signalling, law) An elaborate synonym for the word No.

oppose

  • v. To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc…
  • v. To object to.
  • v. To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
  • v. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
  • v. To compete with; to strive against.

ostracise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of ostracize.

ostracize

  • v. To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with (them) or by refusing…
  • v. (historical) To ban a person from the city of Athens for ten years.

riddance

  • n. The act of being rid of something.

shun

  • v. (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
  • v. (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
  • v. (transitive) To screen, hide.
  • v. (transitive) To shove, push.

veto

  • n. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
  • n. An invocation of that right.
  • n. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
  • v. (transitive) To use a veto against.

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