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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. disappointingly unsuccessful;
- Example: "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"
- Example: "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"
- Example: "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"
- Example: "his best efforts were thwarted"
[syn: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thwart \Thwart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thwarted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Thwarting.]
   1. To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow
      thwarts the air. [Obs.]
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            Swift as a shooting star
            In autumn thwarts the night.          --Milton.
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   2. To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to
      contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
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            If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. --Shak.
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            The proposals of the one never thwarted the
            inclinations of the other.            --South.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thwarted
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled,
           frustrated, thwarted]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

25 Moby Thesaurus words for "thwarted":
   baffled, balked, betrayed, bilked, blasted, blighted, chapfallen,
   crestfallen, crossed, crushed, dashed, defeated, disappointed,
   dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, foiled, frustrated,
   ill done-by, ill-served, let down, out of countenance, regretful,
   sorely disappointed, soured