THWARTING

frustrating, frustrative, thwarting

(adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire

frustration, thwarting, foiling

(noun) an act of hindering someone’s plans or efforts

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

thwarting

present participle of thwart

Noun

thwarting (plural thwartings)

An instance of blocking or obstructing.

[…] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.

Source: Wiktionary

THWART

Thwart, a. Etym: [OE. , , a. and adv., Icel. , neut. of athwart, transverse, across; akin to AS. perverse, transverse, cross, D. dwars, OHG. dwerah, twerh, G. zwerch, quer, Dan. & Sw. tver athwart, transverse, Sw. tvär cross, unfriendly, Goth. angry. Cf. Queer.]

1. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton.

2. Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. [Obs.] Shak.

Thwart, adv. Etym: [See Thwart, a.]

Definition: Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. [Obs.] Milton.

Thwart, prep.

Definition: Across; athwart. Spenser. Thwart ships. See Athwart ships, under Athwart.

Thwart, n. (Naut.)

Definition: A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.

Thwart, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thwarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Thwarting.]

1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [Obs.] Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. Milton.

2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. South.

Thwart, v. i.

1. To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. [R.]

2. Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. [R.] Any proposition . . . that shall at all thwart with internal oracles. Locke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition