Obstructionist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obstructionist \Ob*struc"tion*ist\, n.
     One who deliberately hinders progress; one who obstructs
     business, as in a legislative body. -- a. Of or pertaining to
     obstructionists; causing obstruction; as, obstructionist
     tactics. [Recent]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obstructionist
       n : someone who systematically obstructs some action that others
           want to take [syn: {obstructor}, {obstructer}, {resister},
            {thwarter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "obstructionist":
     bitter-ender, brawler, defendant, diehard, disputant, dissentient,
     dissident, filibuster, filibusterer, frustrater, hinderer, impeder,
     intransigent, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, litigant, marplot,
     naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructer,
     obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, plaintiff, protester,
     quarreler, resister, scrapper, thwarter, wrangler