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frustrated

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//fɹʌˈstɹeɪ.tɪd//
  • United States//ˈfɹʌs.tɹeɪ.tɪd//
  • United States//ˈfʌs.tɹeɪ.tɪd//

Foiled, stopped, disappointed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of frustratesimple past and past participle of frustrate

adjective

  1. 1

    Foiled, stopped, disappointed.

  2. 2

    Suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, discontent and/or slightly angry because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire, or something happened or someone else did something in a way one did not hope for, expect, or desire.

    She easily gets frustrated when it comes to financial matters.

    Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.

  3. 3

    Also a form of execution of a crime in thatImperfect form of execution of a crime in that, despite performing all the acts that should produce it, the crime fails to be consummated.

    A frustrated robbery may financially cripple the company or lead it to recover; a frustrated homicide or murder leaves the victim injured or wounded, not killed.

Forms

comparative
more frustrated
superlative
most frustrated
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).