Crossword clues for frustrated
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frustrate \Frus"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frustrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Frustrating.]
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To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine ?
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To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
Syn: To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"disappointed," 1640s, past participle adjective from frustrate.
Wiktionary
1 foiled, stopped, disappointed 2 suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, and/or discontent because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire. v
(en-past of: frustrate)
WordNet
adj. disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" [syn: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, thwarted]
Usage examples of "frustrated".
The song expressed the frustrated sentiments of more than a million Okies, Arkies and hillbillies who made a long trek to the Golden State and found it was just another hard dollar.
Willy, for she could imagine how the bitter, frustrated Simon Bentwood would look upon his daughter favouring her son, and he with his handicap.
He urged the frustrated postal clerk to move to Bialystok, where local businesses were eagerly seeking German teachers and correspondents to German business houses.
It had been doing that when he was frustrated ever since he got the biosynthetic replacement after Galvan VI.
Frustrated, Vivien went to a massive breakfront wardrobe, fitted with huge pieces of silvered glass and flanked with cabinets of linen trays on either side.
Langdon had been kicked, scratched, held, and even bitten once by a frustrated defenseman from whom Langdon had continuously twisted away.
Before the close of the year the Directoire pushed a step further, and Hoche made an attempt, frustrated by bad weather, to disembark in Ireland, which was ready to revolt against England.
Frustrated, she reached empathically to touch Laeth and assure herself that he was well.
He did not know that the matter was not in his hands at all, or that a power far greater than his own lurked above him, all but reading his mind, a power that would have frustrated an attempt to return to the village of Gato Mgungu and carried him by force to the new camp of Orando.
His gauntleted fingers curled at the memory of gossamer blond strands cupped in his palm, and a frustrated despair flowered deep in his belly.
The rescued man, a Genevese of some education who had most recently traveled to these northern latitudes through the Americas, was soon persuaded to tell his ghoulish tale of reckless creation, unbounded pride, unbearable despair, frustrated revenge, and unfinished business.
The ship soared off, leaving a band of raging, frustrated Brungarians on Horsehead Point.
The two law students had been friends since their first year at Harvard when the two New Jerseyans realized they were both frustrated athletes.
The plans of the exalted Khalif Atalan would be frustrated, and you and I would be sent to Paradise without our testicles with which to enjoy its pleasures.
He also told him about the attempt made by the Tibetan lamas to kidnap him and how he, Trinket, helped by the Eighteen Lohans from the Shaolin Monastery, had frustrated them.