Meaning of FRUSTRATION
| Pronunciation: | | fru'streyshun
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- [n] an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
- [n] a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"
- [n] the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
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| | Synonyms: | | defeat, foiling, thwarting |
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| | See Also: | | annoyance, chafe, disappointment, hindrance, interference, letdown, vexation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Frus*tra"tion\, n. [L. frustratio: cf. OF.
frustration.]
The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the
frustration of one's designs
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you feel frustrated, represents your difficulty in coping with a situation in your daily life. It may reflect your concerns that your life is not going in the direction you want. |
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| | Related Terms: | | ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, annulment, bafflement, balk, balking, betrayed hope, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blow, buck-passing, buffet, cancellation, check, checkmate, circumvention, comedown, conflict, confounding, confusion, counterbalancing, cruel disappointment, dash, dashed hope, decompensation, defeat, disappointment, discomfiture, disconcertion, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, elusion, emotional shock, evasion, external frustration, failure, fallen countenance, fiasco, fizzle, foil, foiling, forlorn hope, getting around, getting round, hope deferred, invalidation, letdown, mental shock, mirage, neutralization, nullification, offsetting, outguessing, outmaneuvering, outwitting, passing the buck, psychological stress, rebuff, repulse, reversal, reverse, rout, setback, sore disappointment, stress, tantalization, tease, the runaround, the slip, thwarting, trauma, traumatism, undoing, upset, vitiation, voiding |
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