Impedimenta

Quick meaning: Impedimenta is a noun meaning Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.

Meaning

Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.

More Meanings

1. plural of impedimentum

Example Sentences

On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.

There was no sign of piano, organ, hymn-books, church programs—the familiar ecclesiastical impedimenta we saw every Sunday.

Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.

Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta - what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know ! - got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.

Synonyms for impedimenta

Depending on context, synonyms include impediments, impediment, obstruction.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obstruction, impediment, hampering, obstacle, impedance, embuggerance.

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