Stymie
verb
To stop or prevent something from happening or someone from doing something.
His career has been stymied by a series of injuries.
Often appears as...
- stymie progress
- stymied by obstacles
noun
A situation in golf where an opponent's ball is in the line of play.
He has to chip over a stymie to reach the hole.
verb
To stop or prevent something from happening or someone from doing something.
His career has been stymied by a series of injuries.
Often appears as...
- stymie progress
- stymied by obstacles
noun
A situation in golf where an opponent's ball is in the line of play.
He has to chip over a stymie to reach the hole.
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Stymie usually implies frustration or an undesirable blockage in plans or progress.
Despite their efforts, the team was stymied by the new regulations.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
Stymie is used for abstract obstacles, not physical ones like locking a door.
Lack of funds stymied the project's continuation.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Obstacle
Stymie indicates a significant challenge or difficulty, not a minor inconvenience.
The unexpected court ruling stymied the company's expansion plans.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Stymie usually implies frustration or an undesirable blockage in plans or progress.
Despite their efforts, the team was stymied by the new regulations.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
Stymie is used for abstract obstacles, not physical ones like locking a door.
Lack of funds stymied the project's continuation.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Obstacle
Stymie indicates a significant challenge or difficulty, not a minor inconvenience.
The unexpected court ruling stymied the company's expansion plans.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Stymie usually implies frustration or an undesirable blockage in plans or progress.
Despite their efforts, the team was stymied by the new regulations.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
Stymie is used for abstract obstacles, not physical ones like locking a door.
Lack of funds stymied the project's continuation.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Obstacle
Stymie indicates a significant challenge or difficulty, not a minor inconvenience.
The unexpected court ruling stymied the company's expansion plans.
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Joshua Klein: The...
and life is dandy if you're a crow -- you can come back anytime and get yourself a peanut. So when they get really used to that, we move on to the crows coming back. Now they're used to the sound of the machine; they keep coming back and digging out peanuts from the pile of coins that's there. When they get really happy about this, we stymie them.
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Why don't perpetual...
have stymied every idea for perpetual motion and the dreams of perfectly efficient energy generation they imply. Yet it's hard to conclusively say we'll never discover a perpetual motion machine because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe.
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Mining the New American...
and timber industries which pay the government hefty royalties advocates want metal minds to pay up also to help offset the cost of the massive cleanup for decades lighting companies and Western lawmakers have stymied attempts to change the 1872 law
Video examples
Joshua Klein: The...
and life is dandy if you're a crow -- you can come back anytime and get yourself a peanut. So when they get really used to that, we move on to the crows coming back. Now they're used to the sound of the machine; they keep coming back and digging out peanuts from the pile of coins that's there. When they get really happy about this, we stymie them.
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Why don't perpetual...
have stymied every idea for perpetual motion and the dreams of perfectly efficient energy generation they imply. Yet it's hard to conclusively say we'll never discover a perpetual motion machine because there's still so much we don't understand about the universe.
Video examples
Mining the New American...
and timber industries which pay the government hefty royalties advocates want metal minds to pay up also to help offset the cost of the massive cleanup for decades lighting companies and Western lawmakers have stymied attempts to change the 1872 law
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Lydia Millet
American Novelist
I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.
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Dennis Haysbert
American Actor
When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.
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Russell Smith
Canadian Novelist
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.
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Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.
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Zephyr Teachout
American Lawyer
Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.
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Crispin Blunt
Our lack of understanding of the institutional capacity of the country stymied Libya's progress in establishing security on the ground and absorbing financial and other resources from the international community.
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Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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Gijs de Vries
Dutch Politician
We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
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Jordan Rodgers
American Athlete
You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.
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Martin Short
American Actor
Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
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Lydia Millet
American Novelist
I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.
Quote examples
Dennis Haysbert
American Actor
When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.
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Russell Smith
Canadian Novelist
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it will be of no interest to writers with any literary ambition, as its constraints are designed to stymie even the most rudimentary impulses - even the first flickering of a dangerous originality.
Quote examples
Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.
Quote examples
Zephyr Teachout
American Lawyer
Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.
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Crispin Blunt
Our lack of understanding of the institutional capacity of the country stymied Libya's progress in establishing security on the ground and absorbing financial and other resources from the international community.
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Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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Gijs de Vries
Dutch Politician
We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
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Jordan Rodgers
American Athlete
You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.
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Martin Short
American Actor
Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.
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