obstructer
- noun
- /əbˈstrʌktər/
:
obstructor
- As an obstructer of free speech, the organization faced backlash from the community.
Examples
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The new policy will help reduce the number of obstructers in the planning process.
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"Just six years ago, Greece was a prominent obstructer of Macedonia's emergence as a state.
Academic text (1998) -
Wilbur and Orville Wright would go from obscurity to international sensations, then be held in contempt as obstructers of progress, and finally be acclaimed as the heroes who taught the world to fly.
Academic text (2003) -
The obstructer of the highway caused a major traffic jam during rush hour.
Synonyms
343
3.4
A thing or problem that makes it hard to reach a goal
309
3.7
Something that stops or makes it hard to make progress
222
4.8
Something that stops or slows progress and makes a task hard
51
7.0
Something that stops or slows progress
50
3.9
A problem that stops progress or makes a goal hard to reach
22
8.2
A person who delays or stops a group's progress on purpose
21
5.7
A thing that makes it difficult to do something, like an injury or traffic
21
4.6
A narrow place, like where lanes merge, that slows movement
18
4.4
A problem that stops progress or makes moving forward difficult
1
7.7
A person or thing that stops something from happening
1
3.9
Something that stops a project or work from moving forward
A person who stops or delays other people's actions on purpose
A person who often stops other people's plans or progress
A person who opposes a plan to stop it happening
A sudden problem that stops progress and causes delay
Antonyms
How Obstructive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Obstructer comes from the parts ob- meaning 'against' and struct meaning 'build', the same struct you see in structure. So an obstructer is someone or something that 'builds against' the way, putting things in the way and so blocking or slowing progress.