The words "prohibit" and "allow" do not have the same meanings, so they are not synonyms; they have opposite meanings, so they are antonyms.
They are antonyms. Allow is often the opposite of prohibit.
The words prohibit and forbid are more synonyms (same) than antonyms (opposite). The word prohibit means that something is not allowed. For example in a non-smoking area, smoking is prohibited. The word forbid means that something/someone is keeping something/someone from doing something. For example, the law forbids a person to drink alchohol under the age of twenty one.
synonyms
Synonyms .
Synonyms.
They are antonyms. Allow is often the opposite of prohibit.
They are antonyms, meaning that they mean the opposite of each other. Allow means 'to let happen' and prohibit means 'to stop from happening'.
Banned
Forbid, not allowed, prohibit or prevent.
Synonyms for prohibit: banned, ban, disallow, forbid, hinder, prevent.
ban, rule out, prohibit, preclude, debar
prohibit
Antonyms-forbid, prohibit
Then you can either allow it or prohibit it.
Allow, approve
Prohibit is a word with several connotations, and each has a set of synonyms, i.e., words of like meaning. And yes, prohibit is also a synonym for each of its similar words.In one way a group of synonyms is like a class of students. Just as each student in the class can claim all the others as fellow students, so each word in a synonymous group can claim all the others in the group as its synonyms.The word prohibit is a synonym for all these words and many more, according to context: ban, forbid, bar, blackball, declare illegal, disallow, exclude, halt, hinder, obstruct, outlaw, prevent, proscribe, restrain, restrict, shut out, suppressAnd all those words are synonyms for prohibit, too.
How are you going to prohibit them from going there? Will you administer fines to them? How do you allow bears to roam in the woods?