frustratedadjective
uk/frʌsˈtreɪ.tɪd/us/ˈfrʌs.treɪ.t̬ɪd/C1 feeling annoyed or less confident because you cannot achieve what you want:
Are you feeling frustrated in your present job?
[ before noun ] used to say that a person who has not succeeded in a particular type of job:
Frustrated writers often end up in publishing.
[ before noun ] A frustrated emotion is one that you are not able to express:
her frustrated love for him
[ before noun ] unhappy because you are not having as much sex as you want
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- not be a happy camper idiom
- wretched
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Unsuccessful (people and things)
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