thwarted

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adjective

Frustrated, obstructed or prevented.

Less commonScrabble 15

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of thwart
adjectivethwarted (comparative more thwarted, superlative most thwarted)

comparative more thwarted · superlative most thwarted

  1. Frustrated, obstructed or prevented.

    There is no blockage in their instinctive life, and when the two men fight the physical closeness is not a substitute for a thwarted sexual life.

    1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 192
    1 more example

    He knows I should only laugh at his desertion; and he would not like to be the one who was left, which he knows I should do for the first thwarted whim.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 205

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivedisappointingly unsuccessful

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Esperanto senigita
  • senigitafrustrated, obstructed, prevented
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