Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thwartful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: thwart-ful
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Full of opposition or inclined to thwart; contrary; cross

Example Sentences

"“Poor little shard of a Brogie; and Stu,” searched I in the thwartful modulation, [...]"
"And, doing third edits for Lindsay notwithstanding, The Paper was a thwartful place for a would-be writer like myself to work in."
"In this joke the use of the container is secondary, functioning primarily to create a more thwartable (thwartful?) expectation."
"Josh viewed Jerome Benedict as a thwartful man always finding the flaws in other people's research."
"And Vereker feels thwartful. . . . It's due to his having a boil—and no cushion with him. . . ."

Etymology

From thwart + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: thwart

Inflected Forms

more thwartful (comparative) most thwartful (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

athwartships thwarten thwartsome thwartwise thwarty

Synonyms

hindersome

Questions

What does thwartful mean?: Full of opposition or inclined to thwart; contrary; cross
Where does thwartful come from?: From thwart + -ful.

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