obstructor

Other forms of obstructor

plural

obstructors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obstructor

What does obstructor mean?

obstructor means "someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obstructor?

obstructor has 3 syllables: ob-struc-tor. The stress falls on "ob".

What is another word for obstructor?

Close synonyms include obstructionist, obstructer, resister, thwarter, obstruction. 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 obstructor a common word?

obstructor 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.