Dictionary

hindersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From hinder + -some.

Meanings

1. Causing hindrance or setback; impeding; contrary; adverse; problematic.
   • Metaphors can, as well as transfer from prior knowledge, be either helpful or hindersome. Metaphors that are relevant and valid for the task to be performed as well as familiar to the user are helpful. 2015, Pierre Falzon, Cognitive Ergonomics:
   • When she donned that magical cloak, her hindersome African ancestors became invisible; they disappeared as though by the wave of a wand. 2005, Patricia J. Williams, Open House:
   • In the days of old, and even yet, the white man's prejudice was very hindersome; but, as time has wore on, and the races have come to expect each other as they know they will be, [...] 1915, Oscar Micheaux, The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races:
   • The sea was choppy but not hindersome. And there was no sign of enemy ships out on the water. 2014, Gavin Wood, The Fate of the Jacobite Grenadiers:
   • Another hindersome problem is the lack of awareness among the American public about poverty in the rural areas: [...] 2012, G. Thomas-Lycklama-Nijeholt, On the Road for Work:
   • Only by such radical action can university and college life be rid of an obsession, which, it is believed, has become as hindersome to the great mass of students as it has proved itself harmful to academic standing, and dangerous to human life. 2013, Carla Killough McClafferty, Fourth Down and Inches:
   • [...] Rappard remarked with regard to the starlings in the Baluran area that their activities were considered hindersome by the banteng. 1970, A. Hoogerwerf, Udjung Kulon: The Land of the Last Javan Rhinoceros:

Forms

Antonyms

helpful · furthersome

Relateds

hindering

Synonyms

thwartful · thwartsome