Frustrate synonyms
frŭs'trāt'
Category:
Part of speech:
disappoint (related)
To fail to satisfy the hope, desire, or expectation of.
hinder (related)
To make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.
prevent (related)
Book of Common Prayer
allow (related)
To let do or happen; permit:
The definition of thwart is to hinder or stop something from happening.
To prevent the success of; thwart:
To keep from being successful; thwart; frustrate
Advertisement
Balk is defined as to create a hindrance or a barrier.
The definition of baffle is confuse.
To make valueless or useless; bring to nothing
To be an obstacle to; prevent the advancement or success of; thwart or stump:
To try to prevent by expressing disapproval or raising objections:
Discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty
self-defeating
That defeats its own purpose or unwittingly works against itself
Advertisement
Tending to stultify.
The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
Disappointment is defined as a feeling of sadness, dissatisfaction or displeasure when something isn't as you planned.
The feeling or state of being frustrated:
Something that impedes; a hindrance or obstruction.
nympholepsy
In ancient times, a state of frenzy that was believed to seize any man who looked at a nymph
The state of being stultified.
Advertisement
To prevent from accomplishing a purpose
To blight is to spoil or destroy something or to cause an urban area to become run-down and neglected.
(Sports) To block an opponent
Check means to test, examine, compare or inspect something to see if it is as it should be.
(By extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
The definition of circumvent means to get around or surround someone or something.
To confound is defined as to confuse someone, defeat an enemy or foil a plan.
Advertisement
To recall a person or unit with such an order.
To cause (hair) to form tight curls or waves.
To make or put a line across:
To dash is defined as to move quickly, to destroy or to add elements to something.
To upset the composure of; embarrass; confuse
To discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.
Elude is defined as to cleverly avoid or escape.
(Archaic) To intensify (a feeling, disease, etc.); aggravate
To make or become nervous or upset.
To bar or hinder the progress of; obstruct or delay
To make ineffective; destroy or counteract the effectiveness, force, disposition, etc. of
Advertisement
To outwit is to beat someone or defeat them because you are smarter or more clever.
Stultify is defined as to make someone or something seem useless or foolish.
To tantalize is defined as to tease someone by showing them something which is desirable and then not providing it.
To annoy, harass, or tease
To change from a settled condition; disrupt:
To prevent from accomplishing a purpose
To prevent from accomplishing a purpose
Advertisement
To make invalid or worthless.
encourage (antonym)
To give support to; be favorable to; foster; help
promote (antonym)
To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing:
assist (antonym)
(Sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
help (antonym)
(Intransitive) To provide assistance.
aid (antonym)
The definition of aid means to provide help or to provide some item or advice that will make something easier or that will solve a problem.
Advertisement
support (antonym)
To offer help or advice regarding (a product or service).
cooperate (antonym)
To acquiesce willingly; be compliant:
facilitate (antonym)
To lead (a discussion), as by asking questions, mediating between opposing viewpoints, or ensuring that all participants' views are heard.
To go about making political speeches.
cut the ground from under
(Sports) In ice hockey, to maintain possession of (the puck) by outmaneuvering opposing players, especially so as to kill a penalty.
To plague diabolically; torment; harass
Advertisement
To put (a person) to death by nailing or binding to a cross.
To annoy constantly
To spoil the smooth operation or success of
To block a wheel or other round object.
To manage to get away from; elude
frustrated (related)
Advertisement
embarrass (related)
upset (related)
overwhelm (related)
infuriate (related)
annoyed (related)
disillusion (related)
intimidate (related)
demoralise (related)
Synonym Study
- To baffle is to defeat the efforts of by bewildering or confusing the crime baffled the police
- Foil means to throw off course so as to discourage further effort or make it of no avail our plans were foiled by bad weather
- Thwart and balk both mean to frustrate by blocking someone or something moving toward some objective
- To frustrate means to deprive of effect or render worthless an effort directed to some end
Find another word for frustrate. In this page you can discover 78 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for frustrate, like: disappoint, hinder, prevent, allow, thwart, defeat, foil, balk, baffle, nullify and stymie.
Trending topics