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thwarty

thwarty adjective: causing or indicating opposition; adverse; pushy; cross.

Adjective

thwarty (comparative thwartier or more thwarty, superlative thwartiest or most thwarty)

  1. Causing or indicating opposition; adverse; pushy; cross
    • And in this aim, there is such a thwarty strife, / That one for all, or all for one we gauge ; [...]1950, Syed Ghulam Imam, Anis & Shakespeare
    • He had not interfered in the conversation of the two men and he even did not mean to inquire later what they'd done at the ministry, about Tomoioaga ("I am sure he is that thwarty, very pushing fellow I met at Milan, he seemed surprised they [...] ")1978, Romanian Review, volume 32, numbers 1-8

Forms of thwarty

comparativethwartier
comparativemore thwarty
superlativethwartiest
superlativemost thwarty

Origin of thwarty

From thwart + -y.

Questions about thwarty

What does thwarty mean?
Thwarty means causing or indicating opposition; adverse; pushy; cross.
What part of speech is thwarty?
Thwarty is an adjective.

Words near thwarty in the dictionary

  1. thwartship
  2. thwartships
  3. thwartsome
  4. thwartways
  5. thwartwise
  6. thwarty
  7. Thweatt
  8. Thweatts
  9. thwip
  10. thwipped
  11. thwipping

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