769 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɒbstɹˈʌkʃən], [ ɒbstɹˈʌkʃən], [ ɒ_b_s_t_ɹ_ˈʌ_k_ʃ_ə_n]

Similar words for obstruction:

• act (noun)
• arrest (noun)
• bar (noun)
• blockade (noun)
• blockage (noun)
• bottleneck (noun)
• burden (noun)
• check (noun)
• clog (noun)
• closure (noun)
• contravention (noun)
• cramp (noun)
• dam (noun)
• delay (noun)
• difficulty (noun)
• encumbrance (noun)
• frustration (noun)
• hindrance (noun)
• impediment (noun)
• impedimenta (noun)
• imperviousness (noun)
• insusceptibility (noun)
• interference (noun)
• interruption (noun)
• limit (noun)
• limitation (noun)
• muscle spasm (noun)
• obstacle (noun)
• obstacle, impediment (noun)
• obviation (noun)
• opposition (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• partition (noun)
• prevention (noun)
• prohibition (noun)
• resistance (noun)
• restraint (noun)
• road block (noun)
• snag (noun)
• stoppage (noun)
• stumbling block (noun)
• tie-up (noun)
• other synonyms
• hoarseness
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for obstruction

Hypernyms for obstruction

Hyponyms for obstruction

Synonyms for Obstruction:

• n.

  •
  • blast,
  • ball,
  • cross,
  • backhand,
  • checkmate,
  • corner,
  • dribble,
  • delivery,
  • chip,
  • circumvention,
  • dive.
  •
  • inconvenience,
  • problem,
  • predicament.
  •
  • prevention.
  • act (noun)
  • obstruction.
  • arrest (noun)
  • re straining,
  • re-straining,
  • restrainings,
  • stayings.
  • bar (noun)
  • blank walls.
  • blockade (noun)
  • re striction,
  • re-striction,
  • encirclements,
  • re strictions,
  • re-strictions.
  • blockage (noun)
  • blockage.
  • bottleneck (noun)
  • hold ups.
  • burden (noun)
  • thorn in ones side,
  • thorn in one side,
  • weary loads,
  • excess baggages,
  • herculean tasks,
  • thorn one's side,
  • mis fortunes,
  • thorn side,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • thorn ones side,
  • ball chain,
  • mis fortune,
  • thorn one side.
  • check (noun)
  • re strainer,
  • re-buffs,
  • dis appointments,
  • re-strainers,
  • re verse,
  • dis appointment,
  • re buffs,
  • dis-appointment,
  • dis-appointments,
  • re buff,
  • re-buff,
  • re versal,
  • re strainers,
  • re-verse,
  • re-strainer,
  • re-versal.
  • clog (noun)
  • dead weights,
  • cumbrances.
  • closure (noun)
  • fastener,
  • seal,
  • cork,
  • lock,
  • stopper.
  • contravention (noun)
  • in fractions,
  • in-fractions,
  • in-fraction.
  • cramp (noun)
  • charley horse,
  • shooting pains,
  • charley horses.
  • dam (noun)
  • milldams.
  • delay (noun)
  • loiterings,
  • re missions,
  • de lay,
  • dis continuation,
  • demurrals,
  • re mission,
  • sur cease,
  • de lays,
  • dis continuations,
  • pro-rogations,
  • cunctations,
  • putting offs,
  • retardments,
  • lingerings,
  • de-lays,
  • cooling-off periods,
  • cooling off periods,
  • prorogations,
  • re-mission,
  • dis-continuation,
  • sur-ceases,
  • pro rogations,
  • dawdlings,
  • dis-continuations,
  • re-missions,
  • cooling off period,
  • coolingoff periods,
  • showstoppers,
  • tarryings,
  • pro rogation,
  • de-lay,
  • coolingoff period,
  • sur ceases,
  • sur-cease,
  • pro-rogation.
  • difficulty (noun)
  • tribulation,
  • painfulness,
  • quandary,
  • arduousness,
  • strenuousness,
  • laboriousness.
  • encumbrance (noun)
  • monkey ones back,
  • monkey on ones back,
  • monkey one back,
  • monkey back,
  • monkey one's back,
  • monkey on one back.
  • frustration (noun)
  • de-feats,
  • un fulfillment,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • non-fulfillment,
  • non fulfillment,
  • de feat,
  • de-feat,
  • un fulfillments,
  • un-fulfillment,
  • old one twos,
  • curbings,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • old one two,
  • non successes,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • non-successes,
  • nonfulfillments,
  • old one-twos,
  • non fulfillments,
  • non-fulfillments,
  • blockings,
  • old onetwos,
  • unfulfillments,
  • un-fulfillments,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • de feats,
  • foilings,
  • non success,
  • old onetwo,
  • nonsuccesses.
  • hindrance (noun)
  • stay,
  • barrier,
  • stop,
  • disadvantage,
  • jam,
  • mire,
  • plug,
  • crimp,
  • bung,
  • drag,
  • constraint,
  • bafflement,
  • impasse,
  • handicap,
  • snarl,
  • deterrent,
  • restriction,
  • complication,
  • congestion,
  • restraint,
  • entanglement,
  • drawback,
  • brake,
  • damper,
  • entrapment,
  • catch,
  • tangle,
  • choke.
  • impediment (noun)
  • impediment.
  • impedimenta (noun)
  • impedimenta.
  • imperviousness (noun)
  • un susceptibilities,
  • un susceptibility,
  • un-susceptibility,
  • un-susceptibilities.
  • insusceptibility (noun)
  • in susceptibilities,
  • in susceptibility,
  • in-susceptibilities,
  • in-susceptibility.
  • interference (noun)
  • barrings,
  • backseat drivings,
  • trespassings,
  • tamperings,
  • pryings,
  • cloggings,
  • inter-meddling,
  • inter positions,
  • interpositions,
  • hamperings,
  • inter-position,
  • inter position,
  • meddlesomenesses,
  • inter-positions,
  • backseat driving,
  • intermeddlings,
  • inter meddling,
  • barging ins,
  • tacklings.
  • interruption (noun)
  • cutoff,
  • breakoff,
  • break-off.
  • limit (noun)
  • farthest point,
  • end points,
  • ultimates,
  • end point,
  • max,
  • maxes,
  • limits,
  • the most,
  • cutoff point,
  • the max,
  • bourne,
  • absolutes,
  • farthest reach.
  • limitation (noun)
  • in junction,
  • in junctions,
  • in-junctions,
  • in-junction.
  • muscle spasm (noun)
  • cramp.
  • obstacle (noun)
  • catch 22's,
  • dis-incentive,
  • catch 22,
  • dis incentive,
  • dis incentives,
  • catch22's,
  • dis-incentives,
  • catch-22's,
  • catch22.
  • obstacle, impediment (noun)
  • hindrance.
  • obviation (noun)
  • forestallment.
  • opposition (noun)
  • conflict,
  • friction,
  • counterattack,
  • confrontation,
  • antagonism,
  • dispute,
  • fight,
  • disagreement,
  • adversary,
  • repulsion,
  • challenge,
  • counteraction,
  • defiance,
  • contradiction,
  • repression,
  • opposition,
  • objection,
  • obstinacy,
  • suppression,
  • protest,
  • rebuff,
  • resistance.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • embolus,
  • meddlesomeness,
  • check,
  • obstacle,
  • nonsuccess,
  • sit down,
  • milldam,
  • Infarctions,
  • prorogation,
  • excess baggage,
  • dead weight,
  • checkings,
  • sit-down,
  • arrest,
  • inhibitor,
  • obviation,
  • barricade,
  • inhibition,
  • deadweights,
  • infarcts,
  • hang up,
  • procrastinations,
  • lockouts,
  • encirclement,
  • roadblock,
  • constipations,
  • logjams,
  • clog,
  • constipation,
  • snag,
  • weir,
  • Bilboes,
  • rationing,
  • stallings,
  • prohibition,
  • dam,
  • impedance,
  • the rub,
  • Cumbrance,
  • unfulfillment,
  • siege,
  • rail,
  • cunctation,
  • millstone,
  • difficulty,
  • infarct,
  • sit-downs,
  • hold-up,
  • blockade,
  • restrictions,
  • proscription,
  • delay,
  • millponds,
  • demurral,
  • interposition,
  • immobilization,
  • partition,
  • hold-ups,
  • Retardment,
  • road block,
  • closure,
  • stumbling stone,
  • obstacles,
  • surcease,
  • weary load,
  • fetters,
  • cooling-off period,
  • Emboli,
  • burden,
  • frustration,
  • millpond,
  • contravention,
  • stone in one's path,
  • stoppage,
  • limit,
  • inhibitors,
  • splittings,
  • old one-two,
  • interruption,
  • preclusion,
  • chokings,
  • hangup,
  • bottleneck,
  • monkey on one's back,
  • tight spot,
  • thorn in side,
  • gridlock,
  • restrainers,
  • croppers,
  • blank wall,
  • monkey on back,
  • deadweight,
  • bar,
  • encumbrance,
  • walkout,
  • non-success,
  • cropper,
  • shooting pain,
  • impedances,
  • fly in the ointment,
  • retardation,
  • weirs,
  • holdup,
  • disincentive,
  • showstopper,
  • sieges,
  • walkouts,
  • Disincentives,
  • hurdle,
  • infarction,
  • logjam,
  • deterence,
  • interference,
  • limitation,
  • tie-up,
  • thorn in one's side,
  • lockout,
  • Intermeddling,
  • procrastination,
  • restrainer,
  • block,
  • Nonfulfillment,
  • Downs.
  • partition (noun)
  • rationings,
  • dis-union,
  • dis-unions,
  • dis union,
  • dividings,
  • dis unions.
  • prevention (noun)
  • de terences,
  • forestallings,
  • de terence,
  • fore stalling,
  • fore-stalling,
  • deterences,
  • thwartings,
  • de-terence,
  • de-terences.
  • prohibition (noun)
  • DONT,
  • no-no's,
  • no-no,
  • don't,
  • off limits,
  • prohibitions,
  • no-nos,
  • don'ts.
  • resistance (noun)
  • striking back.
  • restraint (noun)
  • pinion,
  • straitjacket,
  • straitjackets,
  • pinions.
  • road block (noun)
  • road-block.
  • snag (noun)
  • dis advantages,
  • the rubs,
  • dis advantage,
  • in-convenience,
  • in-conveniences,
  • in conveniences,
  • tight spots,
  • dis-advantage,
  • dis-advantages.
  • stoppage (noun)
  • sitdown,
  • sit downs,
  • sitdowns.
  • stumbling block (noun)
  • stone one's path,
  • stumbling-block,
  • stone in path,
  • stumbling stones,
  • stone one path,
  • stone ones path,
  • fly in ointment,
  • stone in ones path,
  • stone in one path,
  • fly the ointment,
  • fly ointment,
  • stone path.
  • tie-up (noun)
  • tieup.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • observation,
  • levee.
  •
  • discouragement,
  • wall,
  • paralysis.
  •
  • hold back,
  • hold,
  • pin,
  • hamper,
  • immobilize,
  • open,
  • traverse,
  • pin down,
  • intercept,
  • obstruct,
  • trap.
  •
  • sabotage.
  • hoarseness
  • frog.
  • Other relevant words:
  • Intervened,
  • intervene.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • depraved,
  • cutting off,
  • curbing,
  • frustrate,
  • agitation,
  • extinguishing,
  • ease off,
  • trespass on,
  • closing up,
  • disturbing,
  • withholding,
  • interfere,
  • arresting,
  • cracking down on,
  • distressing,
  • reverse,
  • staving off,
  • shackles,
  • constriction,
  • strangulation,
  • obstructor,
  • wait,
  • ugly,
  • chain,
  • commotion,
  • mitigation,
  • interrupt,
  • mountain,
  • Squelching,
  • flagging,
  • tie up,
  • Renitency,
  • impede,
  • smothering,
  • Quieting,
  • Interdicting,
  • Obstructing,
  • cut-off,
  • moratorium,
  • time lag,
  • booby trap,
  • manacle,
  • slowup,
  • forbid,
  • inaccessible,
  • Debarring,
  • limiting,
  • gorge,
  • encroach,
  • slowing,
  • bugbear,
  • cordon,
  • Imperforation,
  • Interclusion,
  • foiling,
  • interfering,
  • hitch,
  • embolism,
  • blind gut,
  • jump,
  • mishap,
  • baulk,
  • coarctation,
  • Impedition,
  • caecum,
  • bother,
  • censoring,
  • Ceasing,
  • forbidding,
  • invade,
  • preventative,
  • relapse,
  • recalcitrance,
  • bulkhead,
  • quelling,
  • agitate,
  • disturb,
  • albatross,
  • embarrassment,
  • prohibit,
  • sinister,
  • intrude,
  • fence,
  • forestalling,
  • control,
  • liability,
  • Clogging,
  • rebelliousness,
  • infringe,
  • slackening,
  • repressing,
  • perturb,
  • onus,
  • evil,
  • preventive,
  • close up,
  • obstructionism,
  • flaw,
  • censorship,
  • intermit,
  • letup,
  • balking,
  • Subduing,
  • monkey wrench,
  • choking,
  • extinction,
  • nuisance value,
  • dissuasion,
  • debarment,
  • stricture,
  • malign,
  • baulking,
  • disturbance,
  • bogey,
  • be worried,
  • balk,
  • Suppressing,
  • slack up,
  • stopping,
  • divider,
  • blind alley,
  • upset,
  • banning,
  • forbiddance,
  • put-down,
  • anticipation,
  • ban,
  • termination,
  • lagging,
  • respite,
  • hang-up,
  • obstructive,
  • interim,
  • suspension,
  • putting down,
  • pause,
  • Quashing,
  • Hinderance,
  • reprieve,
  • refusal,
  • trouble,
  • be concerned,
  • shackle,
  • afterthought,
  • derange,
  • poisonous,
  • Checking,
  • bugaboo,
  • unenlightened,
  • thwart,
  • Mitigating,
  • deterrence,
  • separator,
  • hiccup,
  • obstructer,
  • choking off,
  • negativism,
  • curb,
  • Knag,
  • vicious,
  • taboo,
  • slow up,
  • determent,
  • hazard,
  • Precluding,
  • annoy,
  • cecum,
  • Holdback,
  • defect,
  • controlling,
  • deter,
  • rub,
  • red-tapery,
  • Prohibiting,
  • fixation,
  • confuse,
  • inhibiting,
  • cessation,
  • hindering,
  • denial,
  • imperviousness,
  • slowdown,
  • hiding,
  • anticipate,
  • stay of execution,
  • stranglehold,
  • detraction,
  • hinder,
  • detention,
  • embargo,
  • intransigence,
  • repulse,
  • Tabooing,
  • obstipation,
  • shutting up,
  • distract,
  • concealing,
  • hold up,
  • shutting,
  • weight,
  • Hampering,
  • let,
  • obstructionist,
  • curtain,
  • avoidance,
  • Costiveness,
  • halt,
  • fending off,
  • naughty,
  • sad,
  • inhibit,
  • Muffling,
  • contretemps,
  • set back,
  • immoral,
  • harmful,
  • stubbornness,
  • contraction,
  • elimination,
  • stifling,
  • stop up,
  • lag,
  • resister,
  • discontinuation,
  • blocking,
  • rampart,
  • screen,
  • joker,
  • Arrestment,
  • stumbling block,
  • ending,
  • foot-dragging,
  • bureaucratic delay,
  • abortion,
  • prevent,
  • impermeability,
  • Insusceptibility,
  • Discontinuing,
  • preclude,
  • disconcert,
  • slowness,
  • incumbrance,
  • warding off,
  • Keddah,
  • occlusion,
  • Retarding,
  • Preventing,
  • halting,
  • frustrating,
  • impeding,
  • nuisance,
  • dead end,
  • Restraining,
  • quenching,
  • wicked,
  • interception,
  • Proscribing,
  • letdown,
  • fly,
  • ignorant,
  • bad,
  • reversal,
  • discourage,
  • crack down,
  • baffling,
  • knot,
  • traffic jam,
  • thwarter,
  • glitch,
  • enjoining,
  • trammel,
  • Oppilation,
  • discontinue,
  • ease up,
  • barring,
  • squeeze,
  • Avoiding,
  • corrupt,
  • adverse,
  • Detainment,
  • end,
  • injunction,
  • setback,
  • Arrestation,
  • aborting,
  • crossing,
  • cul de sac,
  • bind,
  • unlearned,
  • sealing off,
  • thwarting,
  • defeat,
  • dragging,
  • dilemma,
  • interdiction,
  • bulwark,
  • criminal,
  • Delaying,
  • enclosure,
  • Renitence,
  • deceleration,
  • detriment,
  • concealment,
  • blind corner,
  • Intercepting,
  • destructive,
  • Terminating,
  • crushing,
  • embarrass,
  • red-tapeism,
  • Silencing,
  • Muting,
  • sense of shame.

Paraphrases for Obstruction:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    handicap, hindrance, interference.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    disability, objection, prejudice, restriction, stamina, holds.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    obstacle, occlusion, obstacles.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    blockade, blocking, congestion, constraint, contempt, disablement, discontinuation, disruption, filibuster, hurdle, impairment, interruption, obstacle, obstructionism, obstructionist, occlusion, opposition, resistance, roadblock, seizure, Filibustering, Fouling, Silting.

Hypernym for Obstruction:

• n.

  • act
    blockage, stall, block, obstruction of justice, occlusion, closure, stalling, blocking, check.

Hyponym for Obstruction:

• n.

  • act
    Hinderance, maneuver, manoeuvre, hindrance, play, interference.