Stymie

Quick meaning: Stymie is a noun meaning (golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).

Meaning

(golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).

More Meanings

1. (by extension) An obstacle or obstruction.
2. To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
3. (golf) To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.

Example Sentences

I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me.

They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.

Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?

For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.

Word Forms

• stymies
• stymy
• stymieing
• stymying
• stymied

Synonyms for stymie

Depending on context, synonyms include block, thwart, hamper, obstruct, stymy, blockade.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blockade, block, obstruct, hinder, embarrass, stymy.

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