frustrate

English

Etymology

From Latin frustro.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈfɹʌstɹeɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"fr`Vstr`eIt/
• (UK) IPA: /fɹəˈstɹeɪt/

Verb

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

1. 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. To hinder or thwart.

   My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.

3. To cause stress or panic

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

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:hinder

Translations

to disappoint or defeat

• Dutch: frustreren (nl)
• Finnish: turhauttaa (fi)
• German: frustrieren (de)

• Portuguese: frustrar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: frustrírati (sh)

to hinder

• Dutch: frustreren (nl)

• Finnish: tehdä (fi) tyhjäksi (fi), estää (fi), vaikeuttaa (fi)

Adjective

frustrate (comparative more frustrate, superlative most frustrate)

1. vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory
   • Shakespeare

     Our frustrate search.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Translations

vain, useless

• Bulgarian: тщетен (bg) (tšteten)

• Russian: тщетный (ru) (tščetnyj)

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Italian

Adjective

frustrate f

1. Feminine plural form of frustrato

Noun

frustrate f

1. Plural form 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