Usually means: Barrier that impedes or blocks progress.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. obstacle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. obstacle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obstacle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obstacle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obstacle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Obstacle, obstacle: Wordnik
  7. obstacle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. obstacle: Wiktionary
  9. obstacle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obstacle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. obstacle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Obstacle, obstacle: Dictionary.com
  13. obstacle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. obstacle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Obstacle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Obstacle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. obstacle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. obstacle: Rhymezone
  19. obstacle, obstacle (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. obstacle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. obstacle: Free Dictionary
  22. obstacle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. obstacle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obstacle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obstacle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obstacle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively

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