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frustrating

UK/fɹəˈstɹeɪ̯tɪŋ//ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/

frustrating adjective: discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty. Also the present participle and gerund of frustrate.

Adjective

frustrating (comparative more frustrating, superlative most frustrating)

  1. Discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty.
    • The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman...2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
    Synonyms:
    discouraging

Also used as

frustrating is also the present participle and gerund of frustrate.

frustrating meaning in Gujarati, Nepali and Vietnamese

frustrating in Gujarati

હતાશ કરનારી

frustrating in Nepali

निराश पार्ने

frustrating in Vietnamese

discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty
tức

Examples of frustrating in a sentence

  • If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.
  • I generally make a hash of talking to boys I like; it's so frustrating.
  • I prefer grinding exp until I'm overleveled for a boss: it's less frustrating in the long run.

All 38 example sentences with frustrating

Synonyms of frustrating

Forms of frustrating

comparativemore frustrating
superlativemost frustrating

Origin of frustrating

From frustrate + -ing.

Words formed from frustrating

Questions about frustrating

What does frustrating mean?
Frustrating means discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty.
What is frustrating in Gujarati?
Frustrating in Gujarati is હતાશ કરનારી. See Frustrating meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is frustrating?
Frustrating is an adjective.
How do you pronounce frustrating?
Frustrating is pronounced /fɹəˈstɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near frustrating in the dictionary

  1. frustrater
  2. frustraters
  3. frustrates
  4. frustratest
  5. frustrateth
  6. frustrating
  7. frustratingly
  8. frustration
  9. frustrational
  10. frustrations
  11. frustrative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frustrating (page history and authors); frustrating (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); frustrating (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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