Obstacle vs Frontier - What's the difference?
obstacle | frontier |
Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
* 1979 , Richard Elphic and Hermann Guilomee (editors), The shaping of South African Society, 1652 - 1820 , page 297:
(obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.
* Shakespeare
Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous.
As nouns the difference between obstacle and frontier
is that obstacle is something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress while frontier is that part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.As an adjective frontier is
lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous.As a proper noun Frontier is
an unincorporated community in Minnesota.obstacle
English
(Obstacle course)Noun
(en noun)- A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.
Synonyms
* impediment * hindrance * hurdle * See alsofrontier
English
Noun
(en noun)- Unlike a boundary, which evokes the image of a line on a map and demarcates spheres of political control, the frontier is an area where colonisation is taking place....no authority is recognised as legitimate by all parties or is able to excersise undisputed control over the area.
- Palisadoes, frontiers , parapets.
Adjective
(head)- a frontier town
