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!