Dictionary Definition
frustrate
Verb
1 hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or
desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was
Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn:
thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, baffle, bilk]
2 treat cruelly; "The children tormented the
stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪt
Verb
- to disappoint or
defeat
- It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
- to hinder
- My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
Translations
to disappoint or defeat
- Finnish: turhauttaa
- German: frustrieren
to hinder
- Finnish: estää, vaikeuttaa
Italian
Adjective
frustrate- Feminine plural form of frustrato
Noun
frustrate- Plural of frustrata
Verb
frustrate- Form of Second-person plural present tense, frustrare
- Form of Second-person plural imperative, frustrare#Italian|frustrare
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
annul,
anticipate, arrest, baffle, balk, bar, beat, bilk, blast, block, brave, bring to nothing, buffalo, buffer, cancel, cancel out, cast down,
challenge, check, checkmate, circumvent, come to nothing,
confound, confront, conquer, contravene, counter, counteract, counterbalance, countermand, counterwork, cripple, cross, dash, deceive, defeat, defeat expectation,
defy, destroy, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, discourage, dish, disillusion, disrupt, dissatisfy, elude, evade, exasperate, flummox, foil, forbid, forestall, get around, get
round, give the runaround, give the slip, go one better, halt, hamper, hamstring, hinder, impede, inhibit, interrupt, invalidate, knock the chocks,
let down, lick, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, nonplus, nullify, obstruct, obviate, offset, outfigure, outflank, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overcome, overreach, pass the buck,
perplex, preclude, prevent, prohibit, redress, repel, repulse, ruin, sabotage, scotch, spike, spoil, stonewall, stop, stultify, stump, stymie, tantalize, tease, thwart, undo, upset, victimize, vitiate, void