frustration

See also: Frustration

English

Etymology

From Latin frūstrātiō (“disappointment”), related to frūstrā (“in vain”). Synchronically analyzable as frustrate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, /fɹəˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

frustration (countable and uncountable, plural frustrations)

1. The feeling of annoyance at impassibility from resistance.
2. The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
   1. (law) The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
3. A thing that frustrates.
4. Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.

Translations

feeling of annoyance

• Arabic: إِحْبَاط‎ (ʾiḥbāṭ)
• Belarusian: расчарава́нне n (rasčaravánnje), незадаво́ленасць f (njezadavóljenascʹ), расстро́йства n (rasstrójstva), разла́д m (razlád)
• Catalan: frustració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 挫折 (zh) (cuòzhé)

• Czech: frustrace f
• Danish: frustration c
• Esperanto: frustriĝo
• Finnish: harmitus, turhautuneisuus, turhauma, frustraatio (fi)
• French: frustration (fr) f
• German: Frust (de) m, Frustration (de) f
• Greek: στέρηση (el) f (stérisi)
• Italian: insoddisfazione (it) f, delusione (it) f

• Japanese: 挫折 (ja) (ざせつ, zasetsu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frustrasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: frustrasjon m

• Plautdietsch: Äwadrissichkjeit f
• Polish: frustracja (pl) f
• Romanian: frustrare (ro) f, frustrație (ro) f
• Russian: разочарова́ние (ru) n (razočarovánije), неудовлетворённость (ru) f (neudovletvorjónnostʹ), расстро́йство (ru) n (rasstrójstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: frustrácija (sh) f
• Spanish: frustración (es) f
• Swedish: frustration (sv) c
• Ukrainian: розчарува́ння n (rozčaruvánnja), незадово́леність f (nezadovólenistʹ), ро́злад m (rózlad), фрустра́ція (uk) f (frustrácija)

act of frustrating

• Bulgarian: разочарование (bg) n (razočarovanie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: frustratie (nl) f
• Finnish: turhauttaminen, turhautuminen (fi)
• French: frustration (fr) f
• Galician: frustración (gl) f
• German: Frustration (de) f

• Italian: frustrazione (it)
• Maori: hēmanawatanga, whakahēmanawatanga
• Portuguese: frustração (pt) f
• Romanian: frustrare (ro) f, frustrație (ro) f
• Russian: расстро́йство (ru) n (rasstrójstvo), срыв (ru) m (sryv), круше́ние (ru) n (krušénije), фрустра́ция (ru) f (frustrácija) (business), крах (ru) m (krax)
• Serbo-Croatian: frustrácija (sh) f
• Spanish: frustración (es)
• Turkish: bıkkınlık (tr)

contractual frustration

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 落空 (zh) (luòkōng)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tarkoituksettomuus (fi) (state), tuleminen tarkoituksettomaksi (becoming), käyminen tarkoituksettomaksi (becoming)

• German: Frustration (de) f (exact concept may not exist in German law)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: hinder (sv) n

thing that frustrates

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: frustratie (nl) f

• Finnish: vastus (fi), vaiva (fi), turhauttava juttu
• German: Frustration (de) f
• Serbo-Croatian: frustrácija (sh) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} frustratie (nl) f
• French: ^{(please verify)} frustration (fr)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} frustración (es) f

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Danish

Etymology

English frustration

Noun

frustration c (singular definite frustrationen, plural indefinite frustrationer)

1. frustration (feeling)

Declension

Declension of frustration

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	frustration	frustrationen	frustrationer	frustrationerne
genitive	frustrations	frustrationens	frustrationers	frustrationernes

Derived terms

• frustrationstærskel
• frustrere

See also

• desperation

References

• “frustration” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frustratio.

Pronunciation

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Noun

frustration f (plural frustrations)

1. frustration

Further reading

• “frustration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.