Frustrate
[frʌ'streɪt;'frʌs-] or ['frʌstret]
Definition
(a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
(v. t.) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
(v. t.) To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
Typed by Carlyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Defeat, disappoint, balk, foil, baffle, disconcert, bring to nought.
a. Vain, useless, ineffectual, frustrated, of no effect.
Edited by Donnie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BAFFLE]
Typed by Brandon
Definition
v.t. to make vain or of no effect: to bring to nothing: to defeat.—p.adj. vain ineffectual defeated.—adj. Frus′trable capable of being frustrated.—n. Frustrā′tion disappointment: defeat.—adjs. Frus′trative tending to frustrate; Frus′tratory disappointing.
Checker: Sherman
Examples
- Still later and more elaborate means have been used to frustrate the burglars. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Thornton declined having any share in a partnership, which would frustrate what few plans he had that survived the wreck of his fortunes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The other is like a man who has planned an outing for the next day which continuing rain will frustrate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She simply continued to be mild in her temper, inflexible in her judgment, disposed to admonish her husband, and able to frustrate him by stratagem. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The words were hard; but this was not the first time that Lydgate had been frustrated by her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Thanks, however, to Gurt's quick ear, and the serviceable electric light, their little scheme was frustrated at nearly the moment of its fulfilment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The accidents of the morning had helped his frustrated imagination to shape an employment for himself which had several attractions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If you do, then all my earnest efforts to avoid a scandal will be frustrated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- With them, to love is merely to contrive a scheme for achieving a good match; to be disappointed is to have their scheme seen through and frustrated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Johnston frustrated this plan by himself starting back as above stated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He sat crushed and frustrated for the time being, quite as emotionless and barren as herself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For the first time Lydgate was feeling the hampering threadlike pressure of small social conditions, and their frustrating complexity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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