impediment
/ɪmˈpɛdɪmənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.05 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
noun
Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
Example Sentences
- "I require and charge you (as you will aunswere at the dreadefull daye of iudgemente, when the secretes of all hartes shalbee disclosed) that if either of you doe knowe any impedimente why ye maie not bee lawfully ioyned together in matrimonie, that ye confesse it."
- "Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment."
- "Your kind Deſire to knovv the State of my Health had not been unſatiſfied of ſo long, had not that ill State been the Impediment."
- "I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined."
- "Patterns incised on this mineral form seem to evade the eye; you have to stand at a certain distance, and in a particular light, to make them out. This impediment is part of the charm for him."
- "In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued."
Etymology
From Middle English impediment, borrowed from Latin impedimentum.