frustrated

Verb

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
  • "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"
• treat cruelly
• simple past and past participle of frustrate

Adjective Satellite

• disappointingly unsuccessful
  • "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"

Adj

• Foiled, stopped, disappointed.
• 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.
• Imperfect form of execution of a crime in that, despite performing all the acts that should produce it, the crime fails to be consummated.

Examples

• 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.
• She easily gets frustrated when it comes to financial matters.

Synonyms

baffle, bedevil, bilk, cross, crucify, defeated, disappointed, discomfited, dun, foil, foiled, frustrate, queer, rag, scotch, spoil, thwart, thwarted, torment

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