halted

The word “halted” has 2 syllables: halt-ed

It's pronounced as /hɒltɪd/


What is synonym and antonym for halted?

In the thesaurus, “halted” has 185 synonyms and 49 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for halted along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for halted

  • abated
  • abolished
  • aborted
  • annulled
  • apoplectic
  • arrested
  • at a standstill
  • at rest
  • backed down
  • baffled
  • balanced
  • balked
  • becalmed
  • bit the dust
  • blockaded
  • blocked
  • blundered
  • bottlenecked
  • braked
  • broke
  • broke down
  • broke off
  • broke up
  • brought up
  • called
  • canned
  • caught
  • ceased
  • checked
  • choked off
  • clamped down
  • clogged
  • closed
  • completed
  • concluded
  • considered
  • cut off
  • cut out
  • dallied
  • dammed
  • dawdled
  • deactivated
  • dead
  • dead-ended
  • deadlocked
  • deathly
  • debated
  • deferred
  • delayed
  • deliberated
  • demolished
  • destroyed
  • detained
  • determined
  • died
  • discontinued
  • dissolved
  • dithered
  • doddered
  • drew up
  • dropped
  • elapsed
  • ended
  • equivocated
  • established
  • expired
  • faltered
  • fetched up
  • finished
  • firm
  • fixed
  • floundered
  • frozen
  • gave over
  • had done with
  • hawed
  • hedged
  • held
  • held back
  • held up
  • hemmed
  • hesitated
  • hindered
  • hitched
  • hobbled
  • hung back
  • immobile
  • immotile
  • impeded
  • inanimate
  • inert
  • interrupted
  • kiboshed
  • killed
  • knocked off
  • laid off
  • lapsed
  • left
  • left off
  • let up
  • lifeless
  • limped
  • lingered
  • lurched
  • numb
  • obstructed
  • oscillated
  • palsied
  • paralyzed
  • passed
  • paused
  • petrified
  • placed
  • planted
  • pondered
  • positioned
  • procrastinated
  • pulled up
  • pussyfooted
  • put
  • put the kibosh on
  • quiescent
  • quiet
  • quit
  • quitted
  • receding
  • regressing
  • repressed
  • retrogressing
  • ruined
  • scrupled
  • scuttled
  • shambled
  • shilly-shallied
  • shuffled
  • shut off
  • snagged
  • snuffed
  • spellbound
  • squashed
  • squelched
  • stable
  • staggered
  • stagnant
  • stalled
  • stamped
  • stanched
  • standing
  • static
  • stationary
  • staunched
  • stayed
  • steadfast
  • stemmed
  • still
  • stilled
  • stock-still
  • stopped
  • stored
  • stumbled
  • stunted
  • suppressed
  • suspended
  • swayed
  • teetered
  • terminated
  • torpid
  • tottered
  • transfixed
  • turned back
  • unmovable
  • unmoved
  • unmoving
  • vacillated
  • wabbled
  • waffled
  • waited
  • wavered
  • weighed
  • went
  • winded down
  • winded up
  • wobbled
  • wound down
  • wound up

Antonyms for halted

  • active
  • actuated
  • advanced
  • afloat
  • afoot
  • alive
  • breezed
  • budged
  • busy
  • carried on
  • continued
  • decided
  • drew out
  • drove
  • extended
  • fared
  • functioning
  • glided
  • goaded
  • going
  • happening
  • hung on
  • impelled
  • kept up
  • lively
  • marched
  • mobile
  • moved
  • moving
  • ongoing
  • operating
  • persisted
  • proceeded
  • proceeding
  • progressed
  • prolonged
  • propelled
  • protracted
  • pushed
  • ran on
  • sailed
  • spurred
  • stirred
  • strode
  • temporary
  • unfixed
  • wended
  • went along
  • working

Meanings of halted

  • verb
    1. To limp; move with a limping gait.
    2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
    3. To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
    4. To waver.
    5. To falter.
    6. To stop marching.
    7. To stop either temporarily or permanently.
    8. To bring to a stop.
    9. To cause to discontinue.

Example Sentences

  • The construction work was halted due to safety concerns.
  • The train halted abruptly at the platform, causing passengers to sway.
  • Production was halted temporarily while the factory underwent maintenance.
  • The spread of the virus was halted by the implementation of strict quarantine measures.
  • The negotiations between the two countries were halted indefinitely due to political tensions.

On this page you'll find 234 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to halted, such as: abated, abolished, aborted, active, actuated, advanced, afloat.

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Related Words

abandoned

aborted

  • abandoned
  • abrogated
  • annulled
  • broke off
  • called
  • called off
  • canceled
  • cancelled
  • countermanded
  • cried off
  • discontinued
  • dropped
  • ended
  • gave up
  • halted
  • held back
  • interrupted
  • invalidated
  • nullified
  • recalled
  • recanted
  • relinquished
  • repealed
  • rescinded
  • retracted
  • reversed
  • revoked
  • rolled back
  • scrapped
  • scrubbed
  • stopped
  • surrendered
  • suspended
  • terminated
  • took back
  • voided
  • withdrew
  • wrote off

abstained

baffled

  • abashed
  • addled
  • addlepated
  • adhered
  • agape
  • aghast
  • agitated
  • agnostic
  • agog
  • appalled
  • arrested
  • astonished
  • astounded
  • at a loss
  • at sea
  • at sixes and sevens
  • averted
  • awe-struck
  • awed
  • balked
  • bamboozled
  • barred
  • beat
  • befogged
  • befuddled
  • beguiled
  • bemused
  • bested
  • bewildered
  • blocked
  • bollixed
  • bothered
  • bowled over
  • buffaloed
  • caught
  • chagrined
  • checked
  • checkmated
  • circumvented
  • clogged
  • clueless
  • come apart
  • come unzipped
  • confounded
  • confused
  • confusional
  • conquered
  • counteracted
  • cowed
  • cozened
  • crushed
  • dazed
  • dazzled
  • deceived
  • defeated
  • deluded
  • disappointed
  • discombobulated
  • discomfited
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • discountenanced
  • disheartened
  • dismayed
  • disorganized
  • disoriented
  • disquieted
  • distracted
  • distressed
  • distrustful
  • disturbed
  • dizzy
  • dopey
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • dubious
  • dumbfounded
  • dumbstruck
  • duped
  • embarrassed
  • encumbered
  • equivocal
  • faithless
  • faltering
  • fazed
  • fettered
  • fixed
  • flabbergasted
  • flipped-out
  • floored
  • flummoxed
  • flustered
  • foggy
  • foiled
  • fooled
  • forestalled
  • fouled-up
  • foxed
  • frozen
  • frustrated
  • fuddled
  • giddy
  • glassy-eyed
  • glued
  • gone
  • got
  • graveled
  • gravelled
  • gulled
  • halted
  • hampered
  • handicapped
  • hard put
  • hard-pressed
  • held back
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hindered
  • hoaxed
  • hobbled
  • hoodwinked
  • humbled
  • humbugged
  • hung up
  • impeded
  • in a dither
  • in a fog
  • in a quandary
  • in clouds
  • in dilemma
  • indecisive
  • inhibited
  • irresolute
  • joined
  • licked
  • like doubting Thomas
  • lost
  • loused up
  • manacled
  • mastered
  • mazed
  • messed-up
  • mind-blown
  • mired
  • misguided
  • misled
  • mixed up
  • mortified
  • mucked up
  • muddied
  • muddled
  • mystified
  • negated
  • neutralized
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • not following
  • not with it
  • nullified
  • obstructed
  • obviated
  • of two minds
  • offset
  • out to lunch
  • overcame
  • overcome
  • overpowered
  • overthrown
  • overwhelmed
  • perplexed
  • perturbed
  • posed
  • precluded
  • prevented
  • punch-drunk
  • punchy
  • put out
  • put to it
  • puzzled
  • questioning
  • rattled
  • reeling
  • routed
  • ruined
  • saddled
  • screwed-up
  • screwy
  • set back
  • shackled
  • shocked
  • shook
  • shook-up
  • short-circuited
  • shot to pieces
  • skeptical
  • slap-happy
  • slaphappy
  • snowed
  • spaced out
  • speechless
  • staggered
  • stalled
  • startled
  • stopped
  • strung along
  • stuck
  • stumped
  • stunned
  • stupefied
  • stymied
  • subjugated
  • surmounted
  • surprised
  • suspicious
  • taken aback
  • tentative
  • theoretical
  • thrown
  • thrown off balance
  • thunderstruck
  • thwarted
  • tied up
  • took in
  • trammeled
  • trammelled
  • tricked
  • troubled
  • trounced
  • turbid
  • uncertain
  • unconvinced
  • undecided
  • undone
  • unglued
  • unhinged
  • unresolved
  • unscrewed
  • unsettled
  • unsure
  • unzipped
  • upset
  • vacillating
  • vanquished
  • vexed
  • vext
  • wavering
  • weirded out
  • without a clue
  • without belief
  • woolly
  • worsted

balanced

  • Apollinian
  • Apollonian
  • accommodated
  • adjusted
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • agreeable
  • analytic
  • analytical
  • artistic
  • backed down
  • becoming
  • certified
  • clear
  • cleared
  • clearheaded
  • coherent
  • cohesive
  • compatible
  • compensated
  • compos mentis
  • confirmed
  • congruous
  • considered
  • consonant
  • coordinated
  • correspondent
  • counterbalanced
  • dallied
  • dawdled
  • debated
  • delayed
  • deliberated
  • democratized
  • discharged
  • dithered
  • elegant
  • equalized
  • equated
  • equilibrated
  • equipoised
  • equitable
  • equivalent
  • equivocated
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • eurhythmic
  • eurythmic
  • even
  • even-keeled
  • evened
  • fair
  • faltered
  • felicitous
  • fit
  • fitted
  • footed
  • graceful
  • halted
  • harmonic
  • harmonious
  • hawed
  • healthy
  • hedged
  • hemmed
  • hesitated
  • homogenized
  • hung back
  • judicious
  • just
  • leveled
  • levelheaded
  • levelled
  • lingered
  • liquidated
  • logical
  • lucid
  • matched
  • matching
  • met
  • normal
  • normalized
  • offset
  • oscillated
  • paid
  • paid off
  • paid up
  • paused
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pondered
  • ponied up
  • procrastinated
  • proportional
  • proportioned
  • pussyfooted
  • quit
  • quitted
  • rational
  • reasonable
  • recompensed
  • regular
  • regularized
  • right
  • sane
  • satisfying
  • scrupled
  • sensible
  • settled
  • shilly-shallied
  • sound
  • stabilized
  • stable
  • staggered
  • standardized
  • stood
  • swayed
  • symmetric
  • symmetrical
  • tasteful
  • teetered
  • uniform
  • unneurotic
  • vacillated
  • validated
  • wabbled
  • waffled
  • waited
  • wavered
  • weighed
  • well-adjusted
  • well-balanced
  • wise
  • wobbled

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