obstructive
adjective/əbˈstrʌktɪv/
/əbˈstrʌktɪv/
- trying to prevent somebody/something from making progress
- Of course she can do it. She's just being deliberately obstructive.
- He proved to be an obstinate and obstructive defendant.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- positively
- quite
- deliberately
- …
- [only before noun] (medical) connected with a passage, tube, etc. in your body that has become blocked
- obstructive lung disease
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from obstruct + -ive.
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