thwart

Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.

(dated, figuratively)Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.

Đồng nghĩa: cross-grained, froward, adamant, ardent, grim, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, irrefragable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful

(dated, figuratively)Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.

Đồng nghĩa: unpropitious, untoward, down on one's luck, fortuneless, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, infortunate, hapless, luckless, misadventurous, mischanceful, misfortuned, peak, snakebit, thwart, unchancy, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpropitious, unlucky, wanchancy

(not comparable, obsolete)Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.

(archaic, poetic)(archaic or poetic) Across, athwart.

(transitive)To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.

Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.

The police thwarted the would-be assassin.

Đồng nghĩa: balk, foil, spoil, cross, discomfit, disconcert, baffle, scuttle, confound, dash, traverse, hamstring, mock, queer

(obsolete, transitive)To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.

(also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive)(transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.

Đồng nghĩa: behedge, blunt, crimp, delay, difficult, diminish, forestay, interfere, intervene, forslow, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, hurt, impair, impede, incommode, lessen, let, mar, obstruct, overslaugh, preclude, prevene, prevent, prohibit, reduce, restrict, retard, slow down, stay, stymie, thwart, thwarten, umbeset, undermine, weaken, worsen

(ambitransitive, obsolete)To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.

An arrow thwarts the air.

(nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.

The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.

Đồng nghĩa: thaught, thawt, thoft

(nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.

A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.

(rare)An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.