impedimental
adjEtymology From impediment + -al.
1
Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
- impedimental bars; impedimental device
- Here again, if he had consented to remain quiet, he might have been what the world calls “successful;” but he was troubled with convictions—things so impedimental to success!—and these drew down upon him a sentence of excommunication.1857, George Henry Lewes, “Modern Philosophy: Transition Period: From Proclus to Bacon”, in The Biographical History of Philosophy from Its Origin in Greece Down to the Present Day, Library edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 384: