- deterrent - tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices"
Antonym: permissive (indirect, via preventive)
- hindrance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap - something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
--1 is a kind of difficulty
--1 has particulars:albatross, millstone; bind; drag; obstacle, obstruction; straitjacket Derived form: verb deter1