- frustrating, frustrative, thwarting - preventing realization or attainment of a desire
Antonym: permissive (indirect, via preventive)
- frustration, thwarting, foiling - an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
--1 is a kind of hindrance, interference
Derived form: verb thwart1
- thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk - hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
--1 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun thwarter1, noun thwarting1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something