单词 | frustrating |
释义 | frustratingadj. That frustrates, disappoints, or balks; characterized by frustration. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [adjective] > frustrating frustratory1490 frustrative1730 frustrating1841 1841 C. G. F. Gore Greville I. ii. 23 Dearly as he loved his mother, it was something to feel freed from a frustrating influence. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlem. I. ii. xviii. 324 Lydgate was feeling the hampering threadlike pressure of small social conditions, and their frustrating complexity. 1944 Pacific Reporter (1957) 2nd Ser. 153 50/2 The courts have required a promisor..to prove that the risk of the frustrating event was not reasonably foreseeable. 1982 W. Boyd Ice-Cream War ii. ii. 108 Temple spent the next few days in an increasingly frustrating attempt to find someone who would admit he was a ‘problem’. Derivatives fruˈstratingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [adverb] > in a frustrating manner frustratingly1955 1955 North Western Reporter (1957) 2nd Ser. LXXX. 116/2 Schooling has been an impossible task for him, and at the best frustratingly detrimental. 1989 M. Spufford Celebration v. 67 There is, frustratingly, almost nothing you can do without literally a leg to stand on. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2020). > as lemmasfrustrating frustrating n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > opposition of plans, frustrating fruster1488 frustrationa1575 discomfita1616 frustrating1640 thwarting1825 discomfiture1828 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > thwarting or being thwarted confoundinga1450 frustrationa1575 prevention1582 frustrating1640 baffling1689 thwarting1825 discomfiting1826 bafflement1841 derailment1896 snookering1935 1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning vi. iii. 298 The frustrating of that vaine conceit, makes it seem longer than the truth. 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη v. 31 Let thy grace teach Mee wisely to enjoie as well the frustrateings, as the fulfillings of My best hopes. a1665 K. Digby Private Mem. (1827) 117 To continue too long in such a school is a frustrating of the intent of it. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. iv. i. 6 I shall know how to advise Edward to the frustrating all your schemes. < as lemmas |
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