Antonyms of verb enable

1 sense of enable

Sense 1
enable -- (render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain")
       Antonym of disable (Sense 1)
      => disable, disenable, incapacitate -- (make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb enable

1 sense of enable

Sense 1
enable -- (render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Antonyms of adj enabling

1 sense of enabling

Sense 1
enabling (vs. disabling) -- (providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power")

disabling (vs. enabling), disqualifying -- (depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified; "certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship")

Similarity of adj enabling

1 sense of enabling

Sense 1
enabling (vs. disabling) -- (providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power")
       => facultative -- (granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something; "a facultative enactment")
       => sanctionative, sanctioning -- (implying sanction or serving to sanction; "the guardian's duties were primarily sanctionative rather than administrative")