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Frustration

Frustration Meaning & Definition
Frustration Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Frustration?

[n] an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
[n] a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"
[n] the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

Synonyms | Synonyms for Frustration: defeat | foiling | thwarting

Related Terms | Find terms related to Frustration: ambivalence | ambivalence of impulse | annulment | bafflement | balk | balking | betrayed hope | blasted expectation | blighted hope | blow | buck-passing | buffet | cancellation | check | checkmate | circumvention | comedown | conflict | confounding | confusion | counterbalancing | cruel disappointment | dash | dashed hope | decompensation | defeat | disappointment | discomfiture | disconcertion | disillusionment | dissatisfaction | elusion | emotional shock | evasion | external frustration | failure | fallen countenance | fiasco | fizzle | foil | foiling | forlorn hope | getting around | getting round | hope deferred | invalidation | letdown | mental shock | mirage | neutralization | nullification | offsetting | outguessing | outmaneuvering | outwitting | passing the buck | psychological stress | rebuff | repulse | reversal | reverse | rout | setback | sore disappointment | stress | tantalization | tease | the runaround | the slip | thwarting | trauma | traumatism | undoing | upset | vitiation | voiding

See Also | annoyance | chafe | disappointment | hindrance | interference | letdown | vexation

Frustration In Webster's Dictionary

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

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