• n.
    ⦿something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted
    lexical concept
  • lack of imagination is an obstacle to one's advancement
  • the filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan
  • the poverty of a district is an obstacle to good education

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:obstacle
  2. enl:obstruction
wn:interlingual indexili:i66819

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelobstacleobstruction