thwarting

Other forms of thwarting

plural

thwartings·

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 thwarting

What does thwarting mean?

thwarting means "an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thwarting?

thwarting has 2 syllables: thwar-ting. The stress falls on "thwar". In IPA it is /ˈθwɔɹtɪŋ/.

What is another word for thwarting?

Close synonyms include frustration, foiling, frustrating, frustrative. 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 thwarting a common word?

thwarting is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.