Obstacle

Noun

 * 1) Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

Adjectives for Obstacle
insuperable; unforeseen; hideous; apparent; tremendous; insurmountable; appalling;usual; effectual; recognized; hopeless; formidable; technical; trifling; prodigious; imaginary; unseen; serious; fatal; stubborn; frightful; infrequent (plural); specific; unexpected; artificial; successful; puny; impending; considerable; practical; impassable; solid-looking; stupendous; petty.

Verbs for Obstacle
anticipate—; brush aside—; circumvent—; cut through—; encounter—; gauge—; interpose—; level—; meet with—; overcome—; remove—; surmount—; vanquish—; —arises; —hinders; —restrains; —restricts; —thwarts.

Thesaurus
hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, jam, joker, mountain, objection, obstipation, obstruction, obstructive, one small difficulty, rub, sealing off, snag, stop, stoppage, strangulation, stumbling, stumbling block, stumbling stone, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, catch, cecum, check, choking, choking off, clog, congestion, constipation, cordon, costiveness, crimp, cul-de-sac, curtain, dead end, determent, deterrent, difficulty, disincentive, drawback, embolism, embolus, gorge, hamper, hang-up, hazard,

Etymology
From obstacle.

Synonyms

 * impediment
 * hindrance
 * hurdle
 * See also Thesaurus:hindrance

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: խոչընդոտ,
 * Chinese: 障碍 (zhàng ài)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 障害 (しょうがい, shōgai)
 * Kannada: ವಿಘ್ನ (vighna)
 * Kazakh: тосқауыл


 * Korean: 방해물
 * Latin:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: obstacol,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: препрека
 * Roman: prepreka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఆటంకం (aaTankam), అడ్డం (aDDam)
 * Turkish: akabe, tümsek, ,  ,  ,  ,  mahzur,  tebelleş,

Noun

 * 1) obstacle

Etymology
From obstaculum, from obsto: