Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: thwarting
IPA transcription: [θw'ɔɹtɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: frustrating, frustrative, thwarting
    Meaning: preventing realization or attainment of a desire
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: frustration, thwarting, foiling
    Meaning: an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
Usage examples
  • Men by their sins and wilful failure to observe his benign laws were thwarting that purpose.
  • He bit the ends of his moustache, and his eyes glared at the impalpable thwarting force that to imagination seemed to fill the air about him.
  • The true reproach to which aristocracy and theism are open is the thwarting of those unequal natures and the consequent suffering imposed on them all.
  • So there was an upright man, possibly a very Hugo in character, who was thwarting and defying the evildoer in his nefarious career, and there was a dastardly plot afoot to break his neck!