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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frustration
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
take your anger/frustration etc out on sb
▪ Irritated with herself, she took her annoyance out on Bridget.
tears of joy/frustration/rage etc
▪ The tears he shed were tears of joy.
venting...frustration
▪ I could hear mum venting her frustration by banging the pots noisily.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
▪ Those meetings highlighted the deep sense of frustration with the management of the Foyle system.
▪ Himes endured the deeper frustration of seeing that the more was not for him.
▪ Surely he must be aware of her deep unhappiness and frustration at the vague, unsettled state of their relationship?
▪ This leads to a deep frustration among so many of the believers in countless churches.
▪ This occurs when the deep desires, frustrations and fantasies of the hidden self effervesce to the surface.
▪ The deep sense of frustration and resentment felt by leaders of the Nixon administration should not be dismissed as mere paranoia.
great
▪ This represents a great deal of frustration, a sense of failure and a lot of parental income felt to be wasted.
▪ My greatest frustration on the bench is the lack of support of the government for the judiciary.
▪ This, too, brings great frustration to politicians.
growing
▪ Repeated commissions and zemstvo investigations drew a grim picture of peasant destitution and growing frustration.
▪ It was adopted by those abolitionists who in a growing mood of frustration had also developed the agency system.
▪ Yet not enough projects are being launched to stifle growing frustration.
▪ They also shared a sense of growing frustration with the lack of political reform and democratisation.
sheer
▪ Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him.
▪ But the die had been cast, in part through the power of imported ideas, in part through sheer frustration.
▪ Jessamy wanted to shout at him in sheer frustration.
■ VERB
cause
▪ Initial attempts at moving together in a team often cause frustration and irritation.
experience
▪ She was taking in the scene as a whole and experiencing a gutful of frustration and doubt.
▪ By success, Wendt means that children feel good about participating in the activity and that they experience more success than frustration.
▪ Few mountaineers can ever have experienced more bitter frustration.
▪ In normal situations, babies experience frequent frustration from birth.
▪ Students experienced frustration when their work with clients did not run in the way they had planned.
express
▪ Allow yourself opportunities to express anger, frustration, and sadness.
▪ Another audience member expresses her frustration: Are we talking about a chemical imbalance?
▪ Like Cratylus he long ago took a vow of silence to express his fundamental frustration at the world.
▪ No one really disliked Tim, except that his teachers expressed considerable frustration with his performance.
▪ At the meeting, some neighbors expressed frustration with authorities.
feel
▪ If it had been anyone but a Ryan ... She felt tears of frustration stinging her eyes.
▪ But Virginia felt a surge of frustration.
▪ He was thinking of Mitch again and Maggie felt almost tongue-tied with frustration.
▪ I feel tears of frustration starting: Little cheat, I moan.
▪ The authorities continued to feel frustration with cattle owners who refused to report their losses.
increase
▪ Leaders insist that only pockets around the country support escalation, but are aware of increasing frustration that the dispute remains unsettled.
▪ Imagine how this information might increase the frustration of parents and teachers!
▪ The next week became one of increasing frustration.
▪ Out of increasing frustration, some members of the public at large are withdrawing from any participation in politics.
▪ These years in Salzburg were also marked by Mozart's increasing frustration with life under Colloredo.
lead
▪ Inconsistencies can be very confusing for young children and conflicting attitudes over toilet training and discipline can lead to frustration and unhappiness.
▪ Another factor led to frustration, annoyance, and an unnecessary expenditure of about $ 800, 000.
▪ This may be done with the best intentions, but it can lead to frustration and arguments.
▪ Expectations that go unmet often fester and lead to frustration.
▪ It led to frustration on his part.
▪ Ambiguities as to roles can lead to stress and frustration.
▪ This led to frustration in two respects.
▪ Wrong expectations from parents lead to enormous frustration.
reflect
▪ I imagined that these characters were popular because they reflected the frustration of those who couldn't escape their lives either.
▪ The relatively recent outbreak of street violence and protests largely reflect the frustration of young people unable to find jobs.
▪ Besides cash flow, the minutes reflect frustration with current point-of-sale cash registers in the restaurants.
share
▪ It is difficult to read the book without sharing her anger and frustration, or feeling her love of open spaces.
suffer
▪ He is being so carefully nurtured that never yet has he suffered any frustration.
▪ She, like Giulietta, is an observer and she suffers the same frustrations as the Renaissance woman.
try
▪ I can speak with feeling about the frustrations I experienced trying to obtain a suitable movement here.
▪ After three days of total frustration trying to catch the elusive fish, Trondur did not give the dorado a chance.
▪ The agitated man shook with frustration as he tried to relate his story.
▪ His frustration he tried to keep to himself but it hovered about him until it shaded and finally swallowed him.
▪ Inevitably, the special learner will have experienced more than the usual measure of frustration and failure in trying to learn.
understand
▪ I said I get a lot of enquiries from frustrated knitters on this point and I can well understand their frustration.
▪ Leroy, one of the newfangled, sensitive hoodlums, has trouble with relationships himself and understands Samantha's frustrations too well.
▪ One can well understand the anger and frustration of the police force.
▪ Independent councillor Derek McVickers sparked controversy when he said he understood Albert Dryden's frustration at planning decisions.
▪ I m perfectly sure he understands Rocky's frustrations.
▪ Most of us with children can understand the frustration of a parent, driven beyond endurance, who hits out.
vent
▪ This is the Neds venting their frustrations but finding order through catharsis - a chaotic way of feeling better.
▪ Employees just vented their frustrations on the survey.
▪ Teasing you is a way for them to vent their frustration while building their own sense of power and camaraderie.
▪ Despairingly she thumped the pillows into a more comfortable shape, as though she could vent her frustration on them.
▪ She vents her frustration in her loose-leaf journal.
▪ It is a winter wind, lost in April and venting its frustration on ships and trees.
▪ The doctors, lacking a cure, vent their frustration on each other.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shout in pain/anger/frustration etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Poetry helps me express some of the frustrations I feel.
▪ Students have spoken of their growing frustration with school administrators.
▪ The discussion sessions help patients deal with some of the frustrations they may be feeling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A strip stuck to the underside of the rule worked beautifully: no more slipping, frustration, or wasted tiles!
▪ He looked around the room and felt the frustration and anger building up inside him.
▪ In the end, she threw her pencil across the room in frustration, then paced over to the window.
▪ It is difficult to read the book without sharing her anger and frustration, or feeling her love of open spaces.
▪ Showbusiness gave the youngster a chance to escape into another world, away from the frustrations of an unsettled childhood.
▪ Then he was kicking, frightened yet enraged, eyes blurred with the tears of his own anger and frustration.
▪ Throughout time, people have turned their anger and frustration inward.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frustration

Frustration \Frus*tra"tion\, n. [L. frustratio: cf. OF. frustration.] The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frustration

"act of frustrating," 1550s, from Latin frustrationem (nominative frustratio) "a deception, a disappointment," noun of action from past participle stem of frustrari (see frustrate). Earlier (mid-15c.) with a now-obsolete sense of "nullification."

Wiktionary
frustration

n. 1 The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated 2 A thing that frustrates 3 The feeling of annoyance when one's actions are criticized or hindered 4 anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular

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WordNet
frustration

  1. n. the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals [syn: defeat]

  2. an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn: thwarting, foiling]

  3. a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"

Wikipedia
Frustration (disambiguation)

Frustration is an emotional response. It may also refer to:

  • Frustration of purpose, in contract law
  • Frustration Ridge, Churchill Mountains, Antarctica
  • Frustration Dome, Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica
  • Geometrical frustration, in mathematics and physics
  • "Frustration", a song by Soft Cell
  • Frustration (solitaire), a single-player card game
  • Frustration!, a board game
Frustration

In psychology, frustration is a common emotional response to opposition. Related to anger and disappointment, it arises from the perceived resistance to the fulfillment of individual will. The greater the obstruction, and the greater the will, the more the frustration is likely to be. Causes of frustration may be internal or external. In people, internal frustration may arise from challenges in fulfilling personal goals and desires, instinctual drives and needs, or dealing with perceived deficiencies, such as a lack of confidence or fear of social situations. Conflict can also be an internal source of frustration; when one has competing goals that interfere with one another, it can create cognitive dissonance. External causes of frustration involve conditions outside an individual, such as a blocked road or a difficult task. While coping with frustration, some individuals may engage in passive–aggressive behavior, making it difficult to identify the original cause(s) of their frustration, as the responses are indirect. A more direct, and common response, is a propensity towards aggression.

Frustration (solitaire)

Frustration is a simple and fast solitaire game that relies purely on luck rather than on skill, similar to but opposite of Hit or Miss. As in the latter game, the player deals the cards, and says "ace" when drawing the first card, "two" for the second, then "three, four... nine, ten, jack, queen, king" then starts again with "ace." If the rank of a dealt card matches the rank uttered by the player while dealing it, the game is lost; the game is won if the sequence is successfully repeated four times (and the entire deck is thus dealt out) without any word/card matches causing a loss.

The game has been the subject of several mathematical studies; the odds of winning are approximately 1.6%.

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Usage examples of "frustration".

As so often before when feeling battered and unappreciated, Adams poured out his fury and frustration on paper.

Finally succumbing to frustration, Andi repeated that she was not making a complaint and asked for the owner to return her call.

Now Andi complained loudly of being betrayed, wadding her clothes into a ball and throwing them against the wall in frustration.

All the frustrations James was experiencing with a recalcitrant, unco-operative, fissive, argumentative and Anglocentric parliament could find their outlet here.

Slowly, Antonio shook his head from side to side, declaring his frustration aloud as he shared his troubles with his mount.

Meanwhile people learned to handle their frustrations and to work around the balkily philosophical, suddenly speculative machines on which their lives depended.

In frustration, Odo set the tricorder to register any energy phenomenon, and the small display screen suddenly turned bright red as all intensity bars filled their scales.

Afterward, Benoit was satisfied with her meeting with Baptiste, although waiting to get to the admiral was a major frustration.

The blesbok was too small and skittish - would only teach our oryx frustration.

He flicked his attention from Brelan and stared at his mother-in-law, taking his frustration out on her.

Kinson paced for a time, then finally sat down next to Bremen, frustration mirrored on his lean face.

He escorted Cagliari and the two officers into the Oval Office and found a chair in the corner, his stomach churning in frustration.

Inside Pouncer raked the air with his claws in frustration and turned to Tskombe.

Frustration levels among the crew waxed and waned with clocklike regularity, leading Caldaq to believe a psychologist should have been appointed captain rather than a fighter.

Pressing cold hands to feverish cheeks, she sank down upon silken cushions, biting at her veil in her frustration.