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🚫 Closed or stopped 🙅 Not allowed contact
blocked

blocked

2.8
Not allowed to see someone on a social app because another person or the app stops you
  • adjective
  • /blɑkt/
  • Texting
translation icon : bloqueado
  • My friend was blocked from contacting me after I changed my privacy settings.

Oh yeah, my blocked word on Instagram is anal.

Examples

  • I can't see his posts anymore because I've blocked him on social media.

  • After I blocked her on Instagram, she couldn't send me any more messages.

  • Join the pool of blocked, Blocked, blocked, blocked.

  • Oh yeah, my blocked word on Instagram is anal.

    Samantha Ravndahl

  • There's something about you that is blocked right now, and that's OK.

  • There's something about you that is blocked right now, and that's OK.

  • I assume there's a baby in there, and now the crosswalk's blocked by this cruise vehicle.

  • I mean that doesn't look that's not blocked, so that's OK.

Synonyms

barred
vsblocked
4.1

Prevented from entering or leaving by a barrier

prevents viewing or contacting an account on social platforms

Antonyms

accessible
280 3.9

A place, thing, or service that you can reach and use easily

How Restricted

prohibited
  • Formal
1 3.7
embargoed
  • Formal
1 7.2
blocked
  • Texting
2.8
under wraps
  • Informal
28 6.0

Surface Forms

blocked positive

Etymology

Blocked on social media comes from the same idea of block, which means to put something 'in the way' or to 'stop' access. So when someone has blocked you online, they have put a barrier that stops your messages and stops you seeing their posts.