THWARTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thwarted mean? 

• THWARTED (adjective)
  The adjective THWARTED has 1 sense:

1. disappointingly unsuccessful

  Familiarity information: THWARTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THWARTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disappointingly unsuccessful

Synonyms:

defeated; disappointed; discomfited; foiled; frustrated; thwarted

Context example:

his best efforts were thwarted

Similar:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

 Context examples 

It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She hath a proper spirit for her years and cannot abide to be thwarted.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am thwarted in every thing material.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In other people's presence I was, as formerly, deferential and quiet; any other line of conduct being uncalled for: it was only in the evening conferences I thus thwarted and afflicted him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The motivational and/or affective state of annoyance resulting from being blocked, thwarted, disappointed or defeated.

(Frustration, NCI Thesaurus)

Even the old chief met us with the same obstinate denial, and it was only Maretas, the youngster whom we had saved, who looked wistfully at us and told us by his gestures that he was grieved for our thwarted wishes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a very strange thing, this sleep-walking, for as soon as her will is thwarted in any physical way, her intention, if there be any, disappears, and she yields herself almost exactly to the routine of her life.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

John no one thwarted, much less punished; though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the sheep, stripped the hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke the buds off the choicest plants in the conservatory: he called his mother old girl, too; sometimes reviled her for her dark skin, similar to his own; bluntly disregarded her wishes; not unfrequently tore and spoiled her silk attire; and he was still her own darling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)