Impediment \Im*ped"i*ment\, v. t.
To impede. [R.] --Bp. Reynolds.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impediment \Im*ped"i*ment\, n. [L. impedimentum: cf. F.
impediment.]
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or
effect.
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Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we marched on without impediment. --Shak.
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Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct
utterance.
Syn: Hindrance; obstruction; obstacle; difficulty;
incumbrance.
Usage: Impediment, Obstacle, Difficulty, Hindrance.
An impediment literally strikes against our feet,
checking our progress, and we remove it. An obstacle
rises before us in our path, and we surmount or remove
it. A difficulty sets before us something hard to be
done, and we encounter it and overcome it. A hindrance
holds us back for a time, but we break away from it.
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The eloquence of Demosthenes was to Philip of
Macedon, a difficulty to be met with his best
resources, an obstacle to his own ambition, and
an impediment in his political career. --C. J.
Smith.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
impediment
n 1: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action
or progress [syn: hindrance, deterrent, balk, baulk,
check, handicap]
2: any structure that makes progress difficult [syn: obstruction,
obstructor, obstructer, impedimenta]
WordNet (r) 2.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "impediment":
arrest, arrestation, arrestment, bar, barrier, blank wall,
blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, blocking,
bottleneck, burden, burthen, cargo, cecum, charge, check, choking,
choking off, clog, clogging, closing up, closure, congestion,
constipation, constriction, costiveness, cramp, cross, cul-de-sac,
cumbrance, curb, dead end, deadweight, delay, detainment,
detention, difficulty, disadvantage, embarrassment, embolism,
embolus, encumbrance, fixation, foot-dragging, freight, gorge,
hamper, hampering, handicap, hang-up, hindering, hindrance, hitch,
hold-up, holdback, holdup, hurdle, impasse, impedance, impedimenta,
imposition, inconvenience, infarct, infarction, inhibition,
interference, interruption, jam, let, load, lumber, mountain,
negativism, nuisance value, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction,
obstructionism, occlusion, onus, opposition, pack, penalty,
repression, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation,
retardment, rub, sealing off, setback, snag, squeeze, stop,
stoppage, stranglehold, strangulation, stricture, stumbling block,
suppression, trouble, weight, white elephant
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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