frustrate
verbEtymology
From Middle English frustrat (“prevented, disappointed, rendered useless”, adjective as well as past participle of frustraten (see Etymology 1)), from Latin frūstrātus, perfect passive participle of frūstrō (“to deceive”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
- derived from frūstrātus
- inherited from frustraten
Definitions
To disappoint or defeat
To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
- It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
To hinder or thwart.
- My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
- Perhaps it was the too-tooing of the youth on the coach horn which frustrated the proposal, and made it appear ludicrous rather than insultive to her ears.
To cause stress or annoyance.
- This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.
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ineffectual
ineffectual; useless; fruitless.
- Our frustrate search.
- In all eternity I had one chance One few years' term of gracious human life […] And this sole chance was frustrate from my birth A mockery, a delusion; […]
The neighborhood
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Derived
frustratable, frustratee, frustrately, frustrater, frustrative, refrustrate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at frustrate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at frustrate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at frustrate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA