All hindrance synonyms

noun hindrance

• interruption — an act or instance of interrupting.
• stumbling block — an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding.
• barrier — A barrier is something such as a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved.
• handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
• interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
• drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
• snag — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
• obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• deterrent — A deterrent is something that prevents people from doing something by making them afraid of what will happen to them if they do it.
• hitch — to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
• restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• lock — a tress, curl, or ringlet of hair.
• glitch — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
• millstone — either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
• baggage — Your baggage consists of the bags that you take with you when you travel.
• stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
• hang-up — a preoccupation, fixation, or psychological block; complex: His hang-up is trying to outdo his brother.
• crimp — If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
• drag — drag and drop
• gridlock — the stoppage of free vehicular movement in an urban area because key intersections are blocked by traffic.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• albatross — An albatross is a very large white seabird.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• joker — a person who jokes.
• trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
• impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
• catch-22 — If you describe a situation as a Catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.
• ball and chain — (formerly) a heavy iron ball attached to a chain and fastened to a prisoner
• cumbrance — a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
• jam-up — a stoppage or slowing of motion, work, or the like, due to obstruction, overloading, malfunction, or inefficiency; jam: Your letters didn't go out yesterday because there was a jam-up in the mail room.
• obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
• encumbrance — A burden or impediment.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• sabotage — any underhand interference with production, work, etc., in a plant, factory, etc., as by enemy agents during wartime or by employees during a trade dispute.
• prevention — the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
• hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.