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adjective

frustrating adj.

Preventing realization or attainment of a desire; causing frustration.

Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting.

Discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.

Synonyms: disappointing.

verb

Frustrate v. t. (past & past part. frustrated; pres. part. frustrating)

To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose. "Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine?"

To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.

Synonyms: To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat.

noun

frustrating n. An act of hindering someone's plans or efforts.

Synonyms: frustration, thwarting, foiling.

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Etymology of 'Frustrating'

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"Frustrating" Quotes from Famous Books

... slums. They were the patient, hard-working folks who have always made up the rank and file of all peoples. They had their faults, and Jesus must have known them. But did he ever denounce them, or call them "offspring of vipers"? Did he ever indicate that their special vices were frustrating the Kingdom of God? They needed spiritual impulse and leadership, but their nature was sound and they were the raw material for the redeemed humanity which he strove ...

— The Social Principles of Jesus • Walter Rauschenbusch

... stage, announced, in an aside, her intention of drowning herself, and several critics, the next day, not understanding that she was speaking aside, severely blamed the gentleman who was on the stage with her for not frustrating her intention. About the same time, there occurred one of the most glaring instances within my recollection of inept conventionalism. The hero of the play was Eugene Aram. Alone in his room at dead of night, Aram heard ...

— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer

... were frustrating. They hadn't seen their captors at all. They'd heard squeaks when they were being brought to this place, and the squeaks were obviously language, but no human one. They'd been bound as well as blindfolded. They hadn't been offered food since their capture, nor water. It ...

— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... While frustrating his country's efforts to find a way out of the pass into which he had intrigued it, the Cretan and his partisans did not neglect other forms of activity. We have seen that rebellion had already broken out at Salonica. In Athens itself the walls were pasted ...

— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott

... I don't believe it. It is some scheme for frustrating the purpose you disapproved of—some plan managed between you and my nephew. You have sent her away, and want to persuade me that she ...

— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

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