in someone's way

1. 1.

   forming a hindrance, impediment, or obstruction

   “she might have succeeded in her ambition, had not circumstances been in her way”

   Synonymsin the way

Questions about in someone's way

What does in someone's way mean?

in someone's way means "forming a hindrance, impediment, or obstruction".

What is another word for in someone's way?

Close synonyms include in the way. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in someone's way a common word?

in someone's way is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.