thwarted
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]thwarted
- simple past and past participle of thwart
Adjective
[edit]thwarted (comparative more thwarted, superlative most thwarted)
- Frustrated, obstructed or prevented.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 205:
- He knows I should only laugh at his desertion; and he would not like to be the one who was left, which he knows I should do for the first thwarted whim.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 192:
- There is no blockage in their instinctive life, and when the two men fight the physical closeness is not a substitute for a thwarted sexual life.