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frustrative

frustrative adjective: that frustrates; causing frustration.

Adjective

frustrative (comparative more frustrative, superlative most frustrative)

  1. That frustrates; causing frustration.

Noun

frustrative (uncountable)

  1. A mood indicating frustration.
    • The frustrative marked with the clitic -tha indicates that the action was 'frustrated', that it has failed already or is bound to fail; or that the success of an action is not yet certain.2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 381 seqq.

Forms of frustrative

comparativemore frustrative
superlativemost frustrative

Origin of frustrative

From frustrate + -ive.

Questions about frustrative

What does frustrative mean?
Frustrative means that frustrates; causing frustration.
What part of speech is frustrative?
Frustrative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near frustrative in the dictionary

  1. frustrating
  2. frustratingly
  3. frustration
  4. frustrational
  5. frustrations
  6. frustrative
  7. frustrator
  8. frustrators
  9. frustratory
  10. frustrule
  11. frustrum

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