Obstructive

4 definitions found

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

  Obstructive \Ob*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. obstrictif.]
     Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing
     impediment. -- {Ob*struct"ive*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  Obstructive \Ob*struct"ive\, n.
     An obstructive person or thing.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obstructive
       adj : preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers
             overflowing into the street" [syn: {clogging}, {hindering},
              {impeding}]

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

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "obstructive":
     choking, complaining, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive,
     crosswise, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting,
     fractious, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inhibiting,
     inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, noncooperative, objecting,
     obstructing, obstruent, occlusive, on the barricades,
     proof against, protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory,
     reluctant, renitent, repellent, repressive, resistant, resisting,
     resistive, restrictive, retardant, retardative, stifling,
     strangling, suppressive, troublesome, uncooperative, unsubmissive,
     unyielding, up in arms, withstanding