roadblock
roadblock noun: something that blocks or obstructs a road.
Noun
roadblock (plural roadblocks)
- Something that blocks or obstructs a road.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- to hit roadblocks
- […] let’s get back to Earl, who had run into a roadblock in his desire to administer wedgies. As it turns out, underpants didn’t exist in the 18th century and without underpants, the whole wedgie business becomes a problem.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Toys for kinky girls and boys—It’s not just whips and chains anymore.” (chapter 3), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 53
- Synonyms:
- bar, drag, barrier, bone in the throat, bump in the road, hindrance, impediment, obstruction, obstacle, encumbrance
Verb
roadblock (third-person singular simple present roadblocks, present participle roadblocking, simple past and past participle roadblocked)
roadblock meaning in Telugu, Kannada, Arabic and Malay
roadblock in Telugu
- రహదారికి అడ్డంకిగా
roadblock in Kannada
- ದಾರಿತಡೆ, ರಸ್ತೆತಡೆ, ರಸ್ತೆ ತಡೆಗಟ್ಟು, ರಸ್ತೆ ಅಡಚಣೆ
roadblock in Arabic
- Something that blocks or obstructs a road
- حَاجِز ḥājiz
roadblock in Malay
- Something that blocks or obstructs a road
- sekatan jalan raya
- An obstacle or impediment
- sekatan, halangan
More languagesFewer languages
- roadblock in Indonesian
- pembatas jalan, sekatan jalan raya, rintangan, halangan
- roadblock in Vietnamese
- rào chắn
Examples of roadblock in a sentence
- Transgender people face roadblocks in accessing healthcare, and it’s not going away even after archaic rules denying healthcare access to transgender people are lifted and more of us become insured.2015 September 16, Andy Marra, “Many trans people still are denied healthcare because of their identity”, in The Guardian:
- America’s jobs recovery hit a major roadblock in August as the Delta variant threatened the labor market recovery, and the US economy added far fewer jobs than expected.2021 September 3, Anneken Tappe, “The August jobs numbers have economists worried. Here’s why”, in CNN:
- Over the past decade, the products hit roadblocks.2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times...
Synonyms of roadblock
- bar
- drag
- barrier
- bone in the throat
- bump in the road
- hindrance
- impediment
- obstruction
- obstacle
- encumbrance
3 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of roadblock
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | roadblocks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | roadblocks |
| present participle | roadblocking |
| past participle | roadblocked |
| past | roadblocked |
Origin of roadblock
From road + block.
Questions about roadblock
- What does roadblock mean?
- Roadblock means something that blocks or obstructs a road.
- What is roadblock in Telugu?
- Roadblock in Telugu is రహదారికి అడ్డంకిగా. See Roadblock meaning in Telugu.
- How do you use roadblock in a sentence?
- Transgender people face roadblocks in accessing healthcare, and it’s not going away even after archaic rules denying healthcare access to transgender people are lifted and more of us become insured.
- What part of speech is roadblock?
- Roadblock can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of roadblock?
- The plural of roadblock is roadblocks.
Words near roadblock in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: roadblock (page history and authors); roadblock (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roadblock (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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