265 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ θwˈɔːtɪŋ], [ θwˈɔːtɪŋ], [ θ_w_ˈɔː_t_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for thwarting:

• defensive (adjective)
• hindering (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• foiling (noun)
• frustrating (noun)
• frustration (noun)
• frustrative (noun)
• obviation (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• prevention (noun)
• disappointing (verb)
• hindering (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "thwarting" in context?

Paraphrases for thwarting

Synonyms for Thwarting:

• adj.

  • defensive (adjective)
  • preservative,
  • in opposition,
  • Interrupting,
  • coping with,
  • safeguarding,
  • guarding.
  • hindering (adjective)
  • Damming,
  • burdensome,
  • baffling,
  • Fouling,
  • impeding,
  • Detaining,
  • Entangling,
  • Entrapping,
  • Deterring,
  • constipating,
  • Encumbering,
  • Handicapping,
  • inhibiting,
  • Delaying,
  • Restraining,
  • Resisting,
  • hindering,
  • Crimping,
  • constraining,
  • choking,
  • restricting,
  • Complicating,
  • crippling,
  • Clogging,
  • bottleneck,
  • Tangling,
  • blocking,
  • Snarling,
  • Snagging,
  • Cramping,
  • Obstructing,
  • congesting.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • defensive.

• n.

  • foiling (noun)
  • foiling.
  • frustrating (noun)
  • frustrating.
  • frustration (noun)
  • frustration.
  • frustrative (noun)
  • frustrative.
  • obviation (noun)
  • forestallment.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • Hinderance,
  • preclusion,
  • inhibitors,
  • deterence,
  • state,
  • defeat,
  • hindrance,
  • obviation,
  • contradiction,
  • inhibitor,
  • interference.
  • prevention (noun)
  • de terence,
  • forestallings,
  • de terences,
  • deterences,
  • de-terence,
  • de-terences.

• v.

  • disappointing (verb)
  • dashing,
  • disillusioning,
  • disappointing,
  • disheartening,
  • disconcerting,
  • discouraging.
  • hindering (verb)
  • Burdening,
  • stopping,
  • catching,
  • countering,
  • Plugging,
  • Hamstringing,
  • curbing,
  • barring,
  • fettering,
  • Hampering,
  • dragging,
  • jamming,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Impairing,
  • Checking,
  • bottlenecking,
  • opposing,
  • Miring,
  • braking,
  • Staying,
  • Bunging.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • circumvention,
  • outwitting,
  • anticipation,
  • conquest,
  • stupefying,
  • antagonism,
  • Precluding,
  • intersecting,
  • injunction,
  • abortion,
  • foil,
  • Coddling,
  • extend,
  • forethought,
  • voiding,
  • Bedeviling,
  • foreclose,
  • disappointment,
  • banning,
  • conflict,
  • Evading,
  • taboo,
  • Muffing,
  • confounding,
  • forestall,
  • impedance,
  • Dunning,
  • covering,
  • Retarding,
  • controlling,
  • embarrassing,
  • crossbreeding,
  • halt,
  • forbidding,
  • prepossession,
  • Discomfiting,
  • destruction,
  • getting around,
  • letdown,
  • crossing,
  • block,
  • contravention,
  • Endangering,
  • perplexing,
  • Graveling,
  • Defeating,
  • featherbedding,
  • delay,
  • aborting,
  • forestalling,
  • balk,
  • obstruct,
  • vitiation,
  • intersect,
  • preclude,
  • Spanning,
  • offsetting,
  • restraint,
  • nullification,
  • fending off,
  • indulging,
  • enjoining,
  • forbid,
  • control,
  • halting,
  • Prohibiting,
  • regulating,
  • balking,
  • mystifying,
  • proscription,
  • Bilking,
  • warding off,
  • prevention,
  • interception,
  • preventive,
  • mollycoddling,
  • fumbling,
  • arrest,
  • mitigation,
  • staving off,
  • slip,
  • hybridizing,
  • interfering,
  • tormenting,
  • bar,
  • thwarter,
  • curb,
  • Babying,
  • eluding,
  • raging,
  • Crucifying,
  • scuppering,
  • bumbling,
  • retardation,
  • cosseting,
  • outguessing,
  • forbiddance,
  • ban,
  • checkmate,
  • Contravening,
  • baulking,
  • thwart,
  • vexation,
  • Vitiating,
  • Nonplussing,
  • Contradicting,
  • Counteracting,
  • opposition,
  • disagreement,
  • puzzling,
  • Botching,
  • Intercepting,
  • baulk,
  • hybridize,
  • amazing,
  • not parallel,
  • setback,
  • discomfiture,
  • neutralization,
  • bungling,
  • arresting,
  • Avoiding,
  • bafflement,
  • outmaneuvering,
  • prevent,
  • Interchanged,
  • Mitigating,
  • prejudice,
  • failure,
  • prohibition,
  • upset,
  • runaround,
  • Exposing,
  • Tabooing,
  • dumbfounding,
  • fluffing,
  • debarment,
  • slowing,
  • mishandling,
  • Interdicting,
  • counterbalancing,
  • elusion,
  • debacle,
  • Traversing,
  • disconcertion,
  • corrupting,
  • Proscribing,
  • tracking,
  • buck-passing,
  • pampering,
  • Scotching,
  • Bedevilling,
  • inhibition,
  • bewildering,
  • precaution,
  • annulment,
  • sabotaging,
  • evasion,
  • counteraction,
  • ruining,
  • Preventing,
  • undoing,
  • bobbling,
  • preventative,
  • Circumventing,
  • deflowering,
  • queering,
  • invalidation,
  • interdiction,
  • avoidance,
  • blockage,
  • check,
  • obstruction,
  • cancellation,
  • Debarring,
  • Marring,
  • rebuff.

How to use "Thwarting" in context?

Paraphrases for Thwarting:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    foiling.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    arresting, averting, banning, barring, blockading, bust, constraining, dampening, dashing, demolishing, discouraging, eroding, fighting, forbidding, forestalling, frustrating, halting, hindering, impeding, inhibiting, interfering, lock, locking, making, opposing, prevention, ruining, stopping, tackling, wrecking, Apprehending, Battling, Defeating, Denying, Depriving, Derailing, Destroying, Deterring, Disrupting, Eradicating, Hampering, Harming, Impairing, Jeopardizing, Obstructing, Overthrowing, Quitting, Restraining, Reversing, curbing, Combating, Curtailing, Precluding, Prejudicing, Preventing, Prohibiting, Stemming, Suppressing, undermining, countering, combatting.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    blocking, Counteracting, aborting.