allowed

Meaning of allowed

verb, past tense
  1. let (someone) have or do something.
    the dissident was allowed to leave the country
    she was allowed a higher profile
  2. give the necessary time or opportunity for.
    he stopped to allow his eyes to adjust
  3. admit the truth of; concede.
    he allowed that the penalty appeared too harsh for the crime
    ‘Could happen,’ she allowed indifferently

Middle English (originally in the senses ‘commend, sanction’ and ‘assign as a right’): from Old French alouer, from Latin allaudare ‘to praise’, reinforced by medieval Latin allocare ‘to place’ (see allocate).

Information about allowed

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of allowed

al-lowed

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • allowed is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

allowed synonyms

Meaning officially allow (someone) to do something:

permit

Meaning not prevent or forbid; allow:

let

Meaning give official permission for or approval to (an undertaking or agent):

authorize

Meaning give official permission or approval for (an action):

sanction

Meaning agree to give or allow (something requested) to:

grant

Meaning grant a licence to:

license

Meaning give (someone) the authority or power to do something:

empower

Meaning give (someone) the authority or means to do something; make it possible for:

enable

Meaning give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something:

entitle

Meaning officially recognize or establish (someone) as a practitioner of a particular profession or activity:

qualify

Meaning allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) without interference:

tolerate

Meaning admit as acceptable or possible:

countenance

Meaning allow (someone) to do something:

suffer

Meaning a small stream:

brook

Meaning make (something that was previously illegal) permissible by law:

legalize

Meaning make legitimate or lawful:

legitimatize

Meaning make lawful or justify:

legitimate

Meaning give approval to:

OK

Meaning confess to be true or to be the case:

admit

Meaning accept or admit the existence or truth of:

acknowledge

Meaning acknowledge the existence, validity, or legality of:

recognize

Meaning say that one will do something which has been suggested by another person:

agree

Meaning consent to receive or undertake (something offered):

accept

Meaning admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it:

concede

Meaning admit or acknowledge that something is the case or that one feels a certain way:

own

Meaning acknowledge something reluctantly, typically because one feels slightly ashamed or embarrassed:

confess

Meaning agree to a demand, request, or treaty:

accede

allowed antonyms

Meaning keep (something) from happening:

prevent

Meaning refuse to allow (something):

forbid

Meaning state that one refuses to admit the truth or existence of:

deny

Words that rhyme with allowed

owed, miaowed, bowed, counterembowed, elbowed, embowed, inbowed, outbowed, overbowed, rainbowed, unbowed, underbowed, unelbowed, unimbowed, cowed, scowed, uncowed, beshadowed, disendowed, dowed, endowed, foreshadowed, gablewindowed, indowed, meadowed, overendowed, overshadowed, reendowed, shadowed, underendowed, unendowed, unshadowed, unwidowed, unwindowed, widowed, windowed, meowed, chowed, foreshowed, forhowed, outshowed, preshowed, reshowed, showed, unshowed, jowed, befurbelowed, bellowed, billowed, blowed

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