thwartful
thwartful adjective: full of opposition or inclined to thwart; contrary; cross.
Adjective
thwartful (comparative more thwartful, superlative most thwartful)
- Full of opposition or inclined to thwart; contrary; cross
- “Poor little shard of a Brogie; and Stu,” searched I in the thwartful modulation, [...]2009, Carlton Thurman, Caddie Esoterica
- And, doing third edits for Lindsay notwithstanding, The Paper was a thwartful place for a would-be writer like myself to work in.2011, Jug Suraiya, J S and the Times of My Life
- Synonyms:
- hindersome
Examples of thwartful in a sentence
- In this joke the use of the container is secondary, functioning primarily to create a more thwartable (thwartful?) expectation.2012, Dan O'Shannon, What Are You Laughing At?:
- Josh viewed Jerome Benedict as a thwartful man always finding the flaws in other people's research.2013, Dennis Ford, Things Don’t Add Up:
Synonyms of thwartful
Forms of thwartful
| comparative | more thwartful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most thwartful |
Origin of thwartful
From thwart + -ful.
Questions about thwartful
- What does thwartful mean?
- Thwartful means full of opposition or inclined to thwart; contrary; cross.
- How do you use thwartful in a sentence?
- In this joke the use of the container is secondary, functioning primarily to create a more thwartable (thwartful?) expectation.
- What part of speech is thwartful?
- Thwartful is an adjective.
Words near thwartful in the dictionary
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