frustrate

frustrate

English

Etymology

From Latin frustro.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɹəˈstɹeɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌstɹeɪt/

Verb

frustrate (third-person singular simple present frustrates, present participle frustrating, simple past and past participle frustrated)

1. (transitive) 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.

2. (transitive) To hinder or thwart.

   My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.

3. (transitive) To cause stress or annoyance.

   This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hinder

Translations

to disappoint or defeat

Belarusian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: разочаровам (bg) (razočarovam) Catalan: frustrar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: frustreren (nl) Esperanto: frustri Finnish: turhauttaa French: frustrer (fr)

German: frustrieren (de) Greek: ματαιώνω (el) (mataióno) Hebrew: תִּסְכֵּל‎ Maori: whakahēmana Portuguese: frustrar (pt) Russian: разочаровывать (ru) impf (razočarovyvatʹ), обламывать (ru) impf (oblamyvatʹ) (slang) Serbo-Croatian: frustrírati (sh) Spanish: frustrar (es)

to hinder

Arabic: فَشَّلَ‎ (faššala) Bulgarian: осуетявам (bg) (osuetjavam), възпрепятствам (bg) (vǎzprepjatstvam) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: frustreren (nl)

Finnish: tehdä tyhjäksi, estää (fi), vaikeuttaa (fi) Greek: ματαιώνω (el) (mataióno) Maori: whakakōpekapeka, whakapōnānā Russian: мешать (ru) impf (mešatʹ), препятствовать (ru) impf (prepjatstvovatʹ)

Adjective

frustrate (comparative more frustrate, superlative most frustrate)

1. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory
   • Shakespeare

     Our frustrate search.

Quotations

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:frustrate.

Translations

vain, useless

Bulgarian: тщетен (tšteten)

Russian: тщетный (ru) (tščetnyj)

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Italian

Adjective

frustrate

1. feminine plural of frustrato

Noun

frustrate f

1. plural of frustrata

Verb

frustrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of frustrare
2. second-person plural imperative of frustrare
3. feminine plural of frustrato

Anagrams

• sfruttare, sfrutterà

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Latin

Verb

frūstrāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of frūstrō