impedimentnoun [ C ]
uk/ɪmˈped.ɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈped.ə.mənt/formalsomething that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible:
In a number of developing countries, war has been an additional impediment to progress.
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speech impediment
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Difficult things and people
- a (heavy) cross to bear idiom
- a bitter pill (to swallow) idiom
- a hard/tough nut to crack idiom
- albatross
- bane
- chill
- equation
- handicap
- hiccup
- hot potato
- job
- labyrinth
- liability
- life's a bitch (and then you die) idiom
- nut
- the chill wind of sth idiom
- the hard way idiom
- the sharp end
- thorn in your flesh/side idiom
- tie-up
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