"frustrating" meaning in English

See frustrating in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /fɹəˈstɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/ [UK], /ˌfɹʌsˈtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/ [UK], /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/ [US], [ˈf(ɹ)ʌsˌtɹeɪ̯ɾɪŋ] [US], [ˈf(ɹ)ʌʃˌt͡ʃɹeɪ̯ɾɪŋ] [US] Forms: more frustrating [comparative], most frustrating [superlative]
Etymology: From frustrate + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|frustrate|ing}} frustrate + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj}} frustrating (comparative more frustrating, superlative most frustrating)
  1. Discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty. Synonyms: discouraging Derived forms: frustratingly Translations (discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty): frustrador (Catalan), frustrant (Catalan), 挫败 (cuòbài) (Chinese Mandarin), frustrerende (Danish), frustrerend (Dutch), frustranta (Esperanto), turhauttava (Finnish), frustrant (French), frustrierend (German), מְתַסְכֵּל (Hebrew), frusztráló (Hungarian), frustrante (Italian), frustrerende (Norwegian Bokmål), frustrante (Spanish), frustrerande (Swedish), tức (Vietnamese)
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Verb

IPA: /fɹəˈstɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/ [UK], /ˌfɹʌsˈtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/ [UK], /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪ̯tɪŋ/ [US], [ˈf(ɹ)ʌsˌtɹeɪ̯ɾɪŋ] [US], [ˈf(ɹ)ʌʃˌt͡ʃɹeɪ̯ɾɪŋ] [US]
Etymology: From frustrate + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|frustrate|ing}} frustrate + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} frustrating
  1. present participle and gerund of frustrate Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: frustrate
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.