thwarted
- adjective
- /θwɔrtɪd/
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frustrado
- For Olivia, Saint Germain is one person who understands her sense of being thwarted by social conventions and who grasps her ongoing disappointment.
Its wings are frozen to the ground, but it's in a ghastly, thwarted mime of escape.
- Its wings are frozen to the ground, but it's in a ghastly, thwarted mime of escape.
- Can you talk about how it leads to extremism and this notion of the thwarted belonging situation?
- What kind of punch to the face does a thwarted stalker throw when he has nuclear weapons?
- Did you have were you feeling thwarted as it as?
- And Otto Frank is what you're talking about is his plans, his thwarted plans to bring his family to America.
- But maybe we should go through, just to get these nailed down, a couple of examples of flourishing and thwarted animals.
Examples
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It's the plans being thwarted, the flight being cancelled.
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She felt thwarted in her goal to become an artist because of her demanding job.
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When in fact, they may be saving themselves years that would have been lost in a career that was thwarted by a toxic situation.
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And Otto Frank is what you're talking about is his plans, his thwarted plans to bring his family to America.
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It was a lifetime of frustrations and thwarted ambitions.
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After many attempts to start the project, they finally accepted that their efforts had been thwarted.
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His plans to study abroad were thwarted by unexpected visa issues.
Synonyms
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2.8
Feeling disappointed because you cannot do something you tried hard to do
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2.9
Not getting the result someone wants
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It does not produce the result people want
Unsuccessful because someone or something stopped it
Feeling sad and without hope after a loss
Antonyms
How Successful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thwarted comes from the old word thwart, meaning 'across' or 'crosswise', like a beam put across a door to stop someone. So if your plans are thwarted, it is as if someone has put a bar across your path and 'prevented you from achieving something'.