Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty
- v. present participle of frustrate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts.
- adj. preventing realization or attainment of a desire; causing frustration.
- adj. discouraging. Opposite of
encouraging .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. discouraging by hindering
- adj. preventing realization or attainment of a desire
Etymologies
- Combination of frustrate and the present participle suffix: -ing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mr. McCourt spoke after what he described as a frustrating three-and-a-half hour meeting with MLB executives, led by Rob Manfred , baseball's chief lawyer.”
“In spite of what he called a frustrating "lack of political will" by Liberian faction leaders for a peaceful civil war settlement, "there now appears to be reasonable grounds for optimism," Boutros-Ghali said.”
“CHICAGO Reuters - President Barack Obama turned his 50th birthday into a 2012 campaign fundraising bonanza on Wednesday, buoyed by a hometown crowd after what he called a frustrating period locked in a debt battle with Republicans.”
“Barack Obama turned his 50th birthday into a 2012 campaign fundraising bonanza on Wednesday, buoyed by a hometown crowd after what he called a frustrating period locked in a debt battle with Republicans.”
“Internet Connections initiative, both of which they characterized as frustrating in last year's survey.”
“After what she called a frustrating time in the store, she realized she could order the toys she wanted online, so she did.”
“What I'm finding frustrating from the general media is the continual bias on issues.”
“What makes this affliction especially frustrating is that I feel I properly maintain the machine.”
Consumer Reports: Handheld power equipment won’t start? Maybe it’s the ethanol
“The thing that's so darn frustrating is our young people don't think it's that big of a deal.”
The Huffington Post: Prescription Drug Abuse: States Link Rx Databases To Watch For Abuse
“What I find frustrating is the condescending attitudes in supposedly genre-friendly reviews and/or venues.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frustrating’.
-
Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
-
TN9 Lesson 108
achievement, Australia, bartender, comfort, confuse, design, dishonest, frustrating, grateful, ignorance, internet, invention and 19 more...
-
TT3 Lesson 36
achievement, chaos, design, detail, frustrating, grateful, honest, inventor, lazy, main, mistake, native speaker and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for frustrating.
bilby Cover their mouths with duck tape. Sep 9, 2009
blasphamnesia i get SO FRUSTRATED when people pronounce it fustrating Oct 3, 2008