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frustrately

frustrately adverb: in vain.

Adverb

frustrately (comparative more frustrately, superlative most frustrately)

  1. (obsolete, rare) in vain
    • Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil

Forms of frustrately

comparativemore frustrately
superlativemost frustrately

Origin of frustrately

From frustrate + -ly.

Questions about frustrately

What does frustrately mean?
Frustrately means in vain.
What part of speech is frustrately?
Frustrately is an adverb.

Words near frustrately in the dictionary

  1. frustrate
  2. frustrated
  3. frustratedly
  4. frustratee
  5. frustratees
  6. frustrately
  7. frustrater
  8. frustraters
  9. frustrates
  10. frustratest
  11. frustrateth

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