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thwart·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwartedadjective
disappointingly unsuccessful
"disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"
Synonyms:
disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, defeatedAntonyms:
successful
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "thwarted":
foiled, aborted, frustrated, aborting, stymied, upset, counteracted, hampered
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#9423 | upset | |
#9704 | disappointed | |
#10565 | defeated | |
#13265 | frustrated | |
#27078 | aborted | |
#30796 | hampered | |
#42492 | thwarted | |
#49060 | foiled | |
#61870 | aborting | |
#74292 | stymied | |
#122543 | counteracted | |
#206494 | discomfited |
How to use thwarted in a sentence?
Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
Any attempt to harm our soldiers and civilians will be met with a determined response like the military action tonight that thwarted a terror attack.
We suspect that there was a Salafist background, police investigations at this stage indicate that we have thwarted an Islamist attack.
Police investigations at this stage indicate that we have thwarted an Islamist attack.
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