Meaning of "frustrate" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FRUSTRATE

From Latin frustrāre to cheat, from frustrā in error.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FRUSTRATE

frustrate  [frʌˈstreɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRUSTRATE

Frustrate is a verb and can also act as an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb frustrate in English.

WHAT DOES FRUSTRATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of frustrate in the English dictionary

The first definition of frustrate in the dictionary is to hinder or prevent of; thwart. Other definition of frustrate is to upset, agitate, or tire. Frustrate is also frustrated or thwarted; baffled.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FRUSTRATE

PRESENT

Present

I frustrate

you frustrate

he/she/it frustrates

we frustrate

you frustrate

they frustrate

Present continuous

I am frustrating

you are frustrating

he/she/it is frustrating

we are frustrating

you are frustrating

they are frustrating

Present perfect

I have frustrated

you have frustrated

he/she/it has frustrated

we have frustrated

you have frustrated

they have frustrated

Present perfect continuous

I have been frustrating

you have been frustrating

he/she/it has been frustrating

we have been frustrating

you have been frustrating

they have been frustrating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I frustrated

you frustrated

he/she/it frustrated

we frustrated

you frustrated

they frustrated

Past continuous

I was frustrating

you were frustrating

he/she/it was frustrating

we were frustrating

you were frustrating

they were frustrating

Past perfect

I had frustrated

you had frustrated

he/she/it had frustrated

we had frustrated

you had frustrated

they had frustrated

Past perfect continuous

I had been frustrating

you had been frustrating

he/she/it had been frustrating

we had been frustrating

you had been frustrating

they had been frustrating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will frustrate

you will frustrate

he/she/it will frustrate

we will frustrate

you will frustrate

they will frustrate

Future continuous

I will be frustrating

you will be frustrating

he/she/it will be frustrating

we will be frustrating

you will be frustrating

they will be frustrating

Future perfect

I will have frustrated

you will have frustrated

he/she/it will have frustrated

we will have frustrated

you will have frustrated

they will have frustrated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been frustrating

you will have been frustrating

he/she/it will have been frustrating

we will have been frustrating

you will have been frustrating

they will have been frustrating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would frustrate

you would frustrate

he/she/it would frustrate

we would frustrate

you would frustrate

they would frustrate

Conditional continuous

I would be frustrating

you would be frustrating

he/she/it would be frustrating

we would be frustrating

you would be frustrating

they would be frustrating

Conditional perfect

I would have frustrate

you would have frustrate

he/she/it would have frustrate

we would have frustrate

you would have frustrate

they would have frustrate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been frustrating

you would have been frustrating

he/she/it would have been frustrating

we would have been frustrating

you would have been frustrating

they would have been frustrating

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you frustrate
we let´s frustrate
you frustrate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to frustrate

Past participle

frustrated

Present Participle

frustrating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «FRUSTRATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «frustrate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of frustrate

anger · annoy · baffle · balk · block · check · circumvent · confront · counter · defeat · depress · disappoint · discourage · dishearten · dissatisfy · exasperate · foil · forestall · hobble · infuriate · inhibit · neutralize · nullify · spoil · stop · stymie · thwart

TRANSLATION OF FRUSTRATE

Find out the translation of frustrate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of frustrate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frustrate» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 使懊丧
• Translator English - Spanish: frustrar
• English: frustrate
• Translator English - Hindi: हताश
• Translator English - Arabic: إحباط
• Translator English - Russian: сорвать
• Translator English - Portuguese: frustrar
• Translator English - Bengali: হতাশ
• Translator English - French: frustrer
• Translator English - Malay: Kecewa
• Translator English - German: frustrieren
• Translator English - Japanese: いらだたせる
• Translator English - Korean: 좌절시키다
• Translator English - Javanese: Mungkasi
• Translator English - Vietnamese: làm hỏng
• Translator English - Tamil: சினங்கொள்ளச்
• Translator English - Marathi: हताश
• Translator English - Turkish: boşa çıkarmak
• Translator English - Italian: frustrare
• Translator English - Polish: udaremnić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: зірвати
• Translator English - Romanian: zădărnici
• Translator English - Greek: ματαιώσει
• Translator English - Afrikaans: frustreer
• Translator English - Swedish: omintetgöra
• Translator English - Norwegian: frustrere

10 QUOTES WITH «FRUSTRATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word frustrate.

1

F. Lee Bailey

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

2

Melody Beattie

Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel crazy when we try to pretend that person is someone he or she is not.

3

Michael Chertoff

And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money.

4

Jonathan Dee

I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

5

Kirsten Dunst

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

6

Kevin Garnett

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

7

Lou Holtz

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

8

Harry Mathews

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.

9

William Rehnquist

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

10

William Sadler

It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, 'Haven't they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like... They must.' Until I directed an episode of 'Roswell.' And all of a sudden, I realized why that was such an important thing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRUSTRATE»

Discover the use of frustrate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to frustrate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

I May Frustrate You, But I'm a Keeper!: Parenting with Love ...

Lincoln's parenting manual explains how to understand different temperaments in order to meet a child's urgent and deep emotional needs.

Ray W. Lincoln, 2009

The Bad Driver's Handbook: Hundreds of Simple Maneuvers to ...

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Zack Arnstein, Larry Arnstein, 2005

Pure Emotion

Proverbs 22:12 One definition of frustrate is to thwart or defeat an endeavor. God will frustrate ungodly plans sometimes: that's godly frustration. But there are a couple assumptions we must not make based on this godly emotion: God will ...

Susan H. Lawrence, 2011

Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ...

And for a counterfayte and a false glory ; they frustrate and de- feact tliemselues of that blessed rewarde, whiche God would haue geuen them, yf they had offered in his sight the pure and sincere oblacion of their prayers. Udall. Matthew, ch.

Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1845

The Works of William Shakespeare

I do beseech you, madam, send away Your other women, and receive from me A few sad words, which, set against your joys, May make 'em shine the more. Pan. Sirs, leave me all. [Exeunt Waiting-women." P. 204. C33) " Being so frustrate, tell  ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce, 1857

Notes, explanatory and practical, on the second Epistle of ...

3 : xl. 6. Heb. Til. 11. to him who had redeemed him by his blood. 21. I do not frustrate the grace of God. The word rendered frustrate (&9tTw) means properly to displace, abrogate, abolish ; then to make void, to render null. Mark vii. 9. Luke vii .

Albert Barnes, Samuel Green, 1851

The Works of of the Late Reverend Robert Traill

So much shall serve for this second point of doctrine, That it is a horrible sin to frustrate the grace of God. I come now to speak to? the next doctrine. Sdly, To seek righteousness by the works of the law, is to frustrate the gYace of God : for this is ...

Robert Traill, 1810

The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...

i'RUoTRATE. participial adj. [from the ineffectual ; useless ; nnprofc, verb.] 1. Vain able.— He is drown'd Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mode Our frustrate search on land. Sbat. Trmf — The ruler of the province of Judea being bi order ...

Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1807

Systematic theology

Men always have natural power to frustrate those divine decrees which they are appointed to fulfil. God decreed that Paul and his company should get safe to land by the instrumentality of the sailors; but they had natural power to frustrate that ...

Nathanael Emmons, Jacob Ide, 1842

Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...

Not more almighty to resist our might, Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles. Milton, P.L. 2. To make null ; to nullify. The act of parliament which gave all his lands to the queen, did cut off and frustrate all such conveyances. Sjxnser.

Samuel Johnson, 1827

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRUSTRATE»

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