hang-up
16
5.9
- noun
- /ˈhæŋˌʌp/
:
obstáculo
- Her fear of speaking in public became a hang-up that she had to overcome to advance her career.
- get hung up
- still hung up
- too hung up
That that's my one hang up with it, which I've made some videos before where I'm like, I'll hit post, but we'll see.
- That that's my one hang up with it, which I've made some videos before where I'm like, I'll hit post, but we'll see.
Examples
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We have this little hang up, we want things to make sense.
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I think it would help him not have hang ups about what other people do or really think.
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Yes, most likely the biggest hang-up on this project was the fact that they could retain the rights to Superman.
Blog text (5) -
TCU's Big East move was rumored for more than a month, but the hang-up was that TCU would not make a football-only switch.
Blog text (27) -
I asked a liberal acquaintance (she used to work for Jerry Torricelli's campaigns in NJ) what the hang-up was.
Blog text (5) -
The missing documents caused a major hang-up in the approval process.
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They encountered a hang-up during negotiations that delayed the final agreement.
Synonyms
148
3.6
A problem that delays progress or makes things worse
51
7.0
Something that stops or slows progress
50
3.9
A problem that stops progress or makes a goal hard to reach
37
4.2
A small problem that causes a delay
25
4.6
An unexpected problem that delays a plan
22
7.7
An unexpected problem that makes a plan or situation more difficult
20
3.8
A delay that stops something from moving forward
18
4.4
A problem that stops progress or makes moving forward difficult
10
7.5
A situation where talks or plans cannot move forward because of a big problem
5
3.2
A problem that slows progress in a project
1
8.4
An obstacle that stops progress
1
6.6
A serious problem that stops a plan, product, or event from going ahead
A sudden problem that stops plans from happening
A sudden problem that stops progress and causes delay
A big delay that stops or slows progress
Antonyms
How Serious
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Morphology
Etymology
The word hang-up for an obstacle comes from the image of something hung up — like a machine part caught on a hook or a phone call that ends — which makes work 'stop'. So a hang-up is an unexpected problem that delays progress.