frustrately

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

frustrate +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

frustrately (comparative more frustrately, superlative most frustrately)

  1. (obsolete, rare) in vain
    • 1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil:
      Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.