Exact Match:
- obstructionist
- someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take
Synonyms:
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- filibuster,
- filibusterer,
- frustrater,
- hinderer,
- impeder,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- marplot,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructer,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- plaintiff,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- resister,
- scrapper,
- thwarter,
- wrangler
Related Words:
- adversary,
- antagonist,
- anti,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- con,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- match,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- oppositionist,
- oppugnant,
- plaintiff,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- resister,
- scrapper,
- wrangler
- apostate,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- defendant,
- demurrer,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissenter,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opinionist,
- opposer,
- opposition voice,
- oppositionist,
- plaintiff,
- protestant,
- quarreler,
- recusant,
- resister,
- schismatic,
- scrapper,
- sectarian,
- sectary,
- separatist,
- wrangler
- apostate,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- defendant,
- demurrer,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissenter,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperator,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opinionist,
- opposer,
- opposition voice,
- oppositionist,
- plaintiff,
- protestant,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- recusant,
- resister,
- schismatic,
- scrapper,
- sectarian,
- sectary,
- separatist,
- wrangler
- defendant
collapse - a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused related words >
- accessory,
- accused,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- correspondent,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- libelee,
- litigant,
- litigationist,
- litigator,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- panel,
- parties litigant,
- party,
- plaintiff,
- prisoner,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- resister,
- respondent,
- scrapper,
- suitor,
- suspect,
- witness,
- wrangler
- naysayer
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- someone with an aggressively negative attitude related words >
- anomaly,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- crosspatch,
- defeatist,
- defendant,
- denier,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissenter,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- freak,
- individualist,
- inner-directed person,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- misfit,
- negativist,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- oddball,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- pessimist,
- plaintiff,
- prophet of doom,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- refuser,
- resister,
- sceptic,
- scrapper,
- sport,
- wrangler
- litigant
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- (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation; "plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants" related words >
- accessory,
- accused,
- actionable,
- appellant,
- appellee,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- causidical,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- litigable,
- litigationist,
- litigator,
- litigatory,
- litigious,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- panel,
- parties litigant,
- party,
- petitioner,
- plaintiff,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- resister,
- scrapper,
- suitor,
- witness,
- wrangler
- negativist
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- someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked related words >
- Cassandra,
- Eeyore,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- calamity howler,
- cynic,
- defeatist,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- filibuster,
- filibusterer,
- frustrater,
- hinderer,
- impeder,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- killjoy,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- malist,
- marplot,
- naysayer,
- nihilist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructer,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- pessimist,
- plaintiff,
- prophet of doom,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- resister,
- retreatist,
- scrapper,
- seek-sorrow,
- thwarter,
- worrywart,
- wrangler
- plaintiff
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- a person who brings an action in a court of law related words >
- accessory,
- accusant,
- accuser,
- allegator,
- appellant,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- claimant,
- complainant,
- defendant,
- delator,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- impeacher,
- impugner,
- indictor,
- informer,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- libelant,
- litigant,
- litigationist,
- litigator,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- panel,
- parties litigant,
- party,
- petitioner,
- prosecutor,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- resister,
- scrapper,
- suitor,
- the prosecution,
- witness,
- wrangler
- Bircher,
- Bourbon,
- Tory,
- ass,
- bigot,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- bullethead,
- conservationist,
- conservatist,
- conservative,
- defendant,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- dogmatist,
- donkey,
- extreme right-winger,
- fanatic,
- fogy,
- fundamentalist,
- hard hat,
- hardnose,
- imperialist,
- intransigeant,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- laudator temporis acti,
- litigant,
- maverick,
- monarchist,
- mossback,
- mule,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- old,
- old fogy,
- old school,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- perverse fool,
- pighead,
- plaintiff,
- positivist,
- protester,
- purist,
- quarreler,
- radical right,
- reactionarist,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- resister,
- right,
- right wing,
- right-winger,
- rightist,
- royalist,
- scrapper,
- social Darwinist,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stickler,
- ultraconservative,
- white,
- wrangler
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- ass,
- bigot,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- bullethead,
- cast-iron,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- dogmatist,
- donkey,
- dour,
- fanatic,
- firm,
- flinty,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- hardnose,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intransigeant,
- iron,
- irreconcilable,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- maverick,
- mule,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- perverse fool,
- pighead,
- plaintiff,
- positivist,
- protester,
- purist,
- quarreler,
- relentless,
- resister,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- scrapper,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- steely,
- stern,
- stickler,
- stiff,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- ungiving,
- unmoved,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- wrangler
- quarreler
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- a disputant who quarrels related words >
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- bitter-ender,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- jouster,
- knight,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- militant,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- plaintiff,
- plug-ugly,
- protester,
- resister,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- bitter-ender,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- jouster,
- knight,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- militant,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- plaintiff,
- plug-ugly,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- resister,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- brawler
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- a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) related words >
- agitator,
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- bitter-ender,
- blade,
- bravo,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- extremist,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- frondeur,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- insubordinate,
- insurgent,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- insurrecto,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- jouster,
- knight,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- malcontent,
- maverick,
- militant,
- mutineer,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- plaintiff,
- plug-ugly,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- rebel,
- resister,
- revolter,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionist,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- subversive,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- traitor,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- disputant
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- a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy related words >
- Philadelphia lawyer,
- apologist,
- arguer,
- argufier,
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- bitter-ender,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- casuist,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- controversialist,
- debater,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disceptator,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- guardhouse lawyer,
- hatchet man,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- jouster,
- knight,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- logomacher,
- logomachist,
- militant,
- mooter,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- pilpulist,
- plaintiff,
- plug-ugly,
- polemic,
- polemicist,
- polemist,
- protester,
- quarreler,
- resister,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- wrangler
- dissident
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- characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards related words >
- alienated,
- antagonistic,
- antiestablishment,
- antipathetic,
- apostate,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at odds with,
- at variance,
- at variance with,
- at war,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- breakaway,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- conflicting,
- contentious,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- counter-culture,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- defendant,
- demurrer,
- deviant,
- diehard,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- disharmonious,
- disproportionate,
- disputant,
- dissenter,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissonant,
- divergent,
- grating,
- heretic,
- heterodox,
- hostile,
- immiscible,
- in opposition,
- inaccordant,
- incompatible,
- inharmonious,
- inimical,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- misbeliever,
- naysayer,
- negative,
- negativist,
- nonconformable,
- nonconforming,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperator,
- nonobservant,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opinionist,
- opposer,
- opposing,
- opposition voice,
- oppositional,
- oppositionist,
- oppugnant,
- out of accord,
- out of whack,
- perverse,
- plaintiff,
- protestant,
- protester,
- protestor,
- quarreler,
- reactionary,
- rebel,
- recalcitrant,
- recusant,
- refractory,
- renitent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- resister,
- revolutionary,
- schismatic,
- scrapper,
- sectarian,
- sectary,
- separatist,
- unadaptable,
- unadjustable,
- uncompliant,
- unconforming,
- uncongenial,
- underground,
- unharmonious,
- unorthodox,
- unsubmissive,
- variant,
- wrangler
- filibuster
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- a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
- obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- be dilatory,
- chalk talk,
- cloture,
- committee consideration,
- constitute,
- debate,
- declamation,
- decree,
- deliberation,
- diatribe,
- division,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibusterer,
- filibustering,
- filing,
- first reading,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- frustrater,
- funeral oration,
- gain time,
- get the floor,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- harangue,
- have the floor,
- hesitate,
- hinderer,
- hold off,
- hortatory address,
- impeder,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- introduction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- kill,
- legislate,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- logrolling,
- make time,
- marplot,
- negativist,
- obstructer,
- obstructionist,
- oration,
- ordain,
- outlast,
- outspeak,
- outtalk,
- pass,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pigeonhole,
- pitch,
- play for time,
- pocket,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- procrastinate,
- public speech,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- roll call,
- roll logs,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second reading,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- steamroller methods,
- stooge around,
- table,
- tabling,
- take the floor,
- talk,
- talk against time,
- talk down,
- talkathon,
- temporize,
- third reading,
- thwarter,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- veto,
- vote,
- yield the floor
- wrangler
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- someone who argues noisily or angrily related words >
- Philadelphia lawyer,
- apologist,
- arguer,
- argufier,
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- bitter-ender,
- blade,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- casuist,
- cattleman,
- combatant,
- commoner,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- controversialist,
- cowboy,
- cowgirl,
- cowhand,
- cowherd,
- cowman,
- cowpuncher,
- debater,
- defendant,
- diehard,
- disceptator,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- drover,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- exhibitioner,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- gaucho,
- gladiator,
- goatherd,
- goon,
- gooseboy,
- gooseherd,
- gorilla,
- guardhouse lawyer,
- hatchet man,
- herder,
- herdsman,
- hogherd,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- horse wrangler,
- horseherd,
- intransigent,
- irreconcilable,
- jouster,
- knight,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- logomacher,
- logomachist,
- militant,
- mooter,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- optime,
- passman,
- pensioner,
- pigman,
- pilpulist,
- plaintiff,
- plug-ugly,
- polemic,
- polemicist,
- polemist,
- protester,
- puncher,
- quarreler,
- questionist,
- resister,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- servitor,
- sheepherder,
- sheepman,
- shepherd,
- shepherdess,
- sizar,
- sophister,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swanherd,
- swashbuckler,
- swineherd,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- vaquero,
- waddy
- irreconcilable
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- impossible to reconcile; "irreconcilable differences" related words >
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- alienated,
- anomalous,
- assorted,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- avenging,
- bitter-ender,
- brawler,
- cast-iron,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- defendant,
- departing,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- diehard,
- different,
- differentiated,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disaffected,
- disagreeing,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- discrete,
- discriminated,
- disjoined,
- disparate,
- disproportionate,
- disputant,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- dissimilar,
- dissonant,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- disunited,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- divers,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- divided,
- dour,
- estranged,
- firm,
- flinty,
- grim,
- grudgeful,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- heterogeneous,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- in disagreement,
- inaccordant,
- incoherent,
- incommensurable,
- incommensurate,
- incompatible,
- incongruent,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- inharmonious,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- last-ditcher,
- litigant,
- many,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- naysayer,
- negativist,
- noncooperator,
- objector,
- obstructionist,
- obstructive,
- opposer,
- oppositionist,
- out of proportion,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- plaintiff,
- poles apart,
- poles asunder,
- protester,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- quarreler,
- rancorous,
- relentless,
- resister,
- retaliatory,
- revanchist,
- revengeful,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- scrapper,
- self-contradictory,
- separate,
- separated,
- several,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- torn,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unappeasable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- unconformable,
- unequal,
- ungiving,
- unlike,
- unmoved,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- variant,
- varied,
- variegated,
- various,
- varying,
- vengeful,
- vindicatory,
- vindictive,
- widely apart,
- worlds apart,
- wrangler
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