frustrated
/frʌˈstreɪtɪd
/adjective
1Feeling or expressing distress and annoyance resulting from an inability to change or achieve something: young people get frustrated with the system...
- Cassie is also frustrated by the lack of treatments available to her.
- He and others were frustrated by the inability to move the US government toward that objective.
- He said that Ian's family was frustrated by the delay in reaching a decision.
1.1Unfulfilled sexually: jealousies and frustrated passions...
- Sexually frustrated, trapped and tired: doesn't this describe a good bit of Modern Lovers?
- Of course there was more to the weekend than Guinness and sexually frustrated legal professionals, but not much more.
- I find that the guys in this city are pent-up and sexually frustrated.
2 [attributive] (Of a person) unable to follow or be successful in a particular career: a frustrated actor...
- Most lawyers are frustrated writers, actors, comedians or performers of some bent or another.
- The list of actors moonlighting as frustrated musicians is not a short one.
- Many of the BAFTA members are frustrated writers, performers or directors and they are similarly unable to contain their bitterness.
2.1Prevented from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled: years of frustrated attempts to regain control of the site...
- After several frustrated attempts at demanding the right to practice my fatherhood, I gave up.
- In his situation I imagined I would feel angry at lost years and frustrated dreams.
- The survey results were presented on upright cards in a grid on the gallery floor, creating a schematic suburb of frustrated dreams.
Derivatives
frustratedly
- Her e-mail server is out to lunch; hundreds of miles away, her ex-boyfriend sits frustratedly wondering why she is not responding.
- She doesn't like me, man’ Noah shook his head frustratedly.
- ‘I don't know, Alex,’ he answered frustratedly.