head wind

noun

Roget 706: prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage; embolus, embolism [Med.]; infarct [Med.]; interruption, interception, interclusion^†; hindrance, impedition^†; retardment^†, retardation; embarrassment, oppilation^†; coarctation^†, stricture, restriction; restraint etc. 751; inhibition etc. 761; blockade etc. (closure) 261.    interference, interposition; obtrusion; discouragement, discountenance.    impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag^†; check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil.    bar, stile, barrier; [barrier to vehicles] turnstile, turnpike; gate, portcullis.    beaver dam; trocha^†; barricade etc. (defense) 717; wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne^†; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper etc. 263; boom, dam, weir, burrock^†.    drawback, objection; stumbling-block, stumbling-stone; lion in the path, snag; snags and sawyers.    encumbrance, incumbrance^†; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel^†, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes^†, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.    difficulty etc. 704; insuperable etc. 471; obstacle; estoppel [Law]; ill wind; head wind etc. (opposition) 708; trammel, tether etc. (means of restraint) 752; hold back, counterpoise.    [person who hinders] damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy; party pooper [Coll.]; party crasher, interloper.    trail of a red herring; opponent etc. 710.    ... show more

Roget 708: opposition, antagonism; oppugnancy^†, oppugnation^†; impugnation^†; contrariety; contravention; counteraction etc. 179; counterplot.    cross fire, undercurrent, head wind.    clashing, collision, conflict.    competition, two of a trade, rivalry, emulation, race.    absence of aid etc. 708; resistance etc. 719; restraint etc. 751; hindrance etc. 706.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: CAT, aerospace, aerosphere, air current, air hole, air pocket, airspace, backing wind, beam wind, bucking, bump, ceiling, challenge, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contravention, contraversion, counteraction, counterbalance, counterblast, countercurrent, counterforce, counterinfluence, counterpoise, counterpressure, counterweight, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, crosswind, current, current of air, denial, downdraft, draft, empty space, fair wind, fall wind, favorable wind, flow of air, fog, following wind, foul wind, front, high-pressure area, hole, impugnation, impugnment, indraft, inflow, inhalation, inrush, inspiration, ionosphere, jetstream, katabatic wind, low-pressure area, monsoon, movement of air, negation, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, overcast, pocket, rebutment, rebuttal, refusal, rejection, relative wind, resistance, roughness, slant of wind, soup, space, standing against, stratosphere, stream, stream of air, substratosphere, tail wind, traversal, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, undercurrent, updraft, veering wind, visibility, visibility zero, wind ... show more.

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