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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Obstructive \Ob*struct"ive\, adjective [Cf. F. obstrictif.] Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- {Ob*struct"ive*ly}, adverb
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Obstructive \Ob*struct"ive\, noun An obstructive person or thing.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
obstructive
adjective: preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street" [syn: {clogging}, {hindering}, {impeding}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "obstructive": choking, complaining, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive, crosswise, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, fractious, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, noncooperative, objecting, obstructing, obstruent, occlusive, on the barricades, proof against, protesting, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, repressive, resistant, resisting, resistive, restrictive, retardant, retardative, stifling, strangling, suppressive, troublesome, uncooperative, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, withstanding
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