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obstructive

adj, noun — 2 senses

obstructive

adj

UK /əbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/ · US /əbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/

Etymology From obstruct + -ive.

1

Causing obstructions.

  • I wanted to see his report on me, but my manager was being obstructive.
  • The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310:
Derived terms
antiobstructive, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, deobstructive, nonobstructive, obstructively, obstructiveness, obstructivism, postobstructive, unobstructive

obstructive

noun

Etymology From obstruct + -ive.

1

One who obstructs something.

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