'Frustration' definitions:
Definition of 'frustration'
(from WordNet)
noun
The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals [syn: frustration, defeat]
noun
noun
A feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"
Definition of 'Frustration'
From: GCIDE
- Frustration \Frus*tra"tion\, n. [L. frustratio: cf. OF. frustration.] The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'frustration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambivalence,
- ambivalence of impulse,
- annulment,
- bafflement,
- balk,
- balking,
- betrayed hope,
- blasted expectation,
- blighted hope,
- blow,
- buck-passing,
- buffet,
- cancellation,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvention,
- comedown,
- conflict,
- confounding,
- confusion,
- counterbalancing,
- cruel disappointment,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- decompensation,
- defeat,
- disappointment,
- discomfiture,
- disconcertion,
- disillusionment,
- dissatisfaction,
- elusion,
- emotional shock,
- evasion,
- external frustration,
- failure,
- fallen countenance,
- fiasco,
- fizzle,
- foil,
- foiling,
- forlorn hope,
- getting around,
- getting round,
- hope deferred,
- invalidation,
- letdown,
- mental shock,
- mirage,
- neutralization,
- nullification,
- offsetting,
- outguessing,
- outmaneuvering,
- outwitting,
- passing the buck,
- psychological stress,
- rebuff,
- repulse,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- rout,
- setback,
- sore disappointment,
- stress,
- tantalization,
- tease,
- the runaround,
- the slip,
- thwarting,
- trauma,
- traumatism,
- undoing,
- upset,
- vitiation,
- voiding