'Thwarting' definitions:
Definition of 'thwarting'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: frustrating, frustrative, thwarting]
noun
An act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn: frustration, thwarting, foiling]
Definition of 'Thwarting'
From: GCIDE
- Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thwarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Thwarting.]
- 1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. [1913 Webster]
- If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'thwarting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- annulment,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- balking,
- buck-passing,
- cancellation,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvention,
- confounding,
- counterbalancing,
- defeat,
- discomfiture,
- disconcertion,
- elusion,
- evasion,
- foil,
- foiling,
- frustration,
- getting around,
- getting round,
- invalidation,
- neutralization,
- nullification,
- offsetting,
- outguessing,
- outmaneuvering,
- outwitting,
- passing the buck,
- the runaround,
- the slip,
- undoing,
- upset,
- vitiation,
- voiding