as in annoying
causing annoyance
these daily traffic jams are frustrating
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as in baffling
to prevent from achieving a goal
a multitude of conflicting opinions frustrated me in my attempt to find a computer that best suits my needs
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as in discouraging
to lessen the courage or confidence of
challenge the math student, but don't frustrate him or her with overly difficult problems
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Recent Examples of frustrating
Nia Bowers, USA Today, 20 May 2025
Harris is one of the most frustrating YA villains seen on television recently.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 May 2025
Sommers won his sixth individual state title earlier in the day and gets to finish on top once more in what had been a frustrating season marred by injury.
—Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 17 May 2025
Most frustrating, Orwell’s limitations both politically and personally — especially the sexism, homophobia, and classism that occasionally seeped into his novels and essays — don’t receive much implicit or explicit acknowledgement within the film.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
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Adjective
These everyday aches become limiting, frustrating, and emotionally draining for millions of Americans aged 50 and up.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 20 May 2025
Harris is one of the most frustrating YA villains seen on television recently.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 May 2025
Sommers won his sixth individual state title earlier in the day and gets to finish on top once more in what had been a frustrating season marred by injury.
—Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 17 May 2025
Most frustrating, Orwell’s limitations both politically and personally — especially the sexism, homophobia, and classism that occasionally seeped into his novels and essays — don’t receive much implicit or explicit acknowledgement within the film.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frustrating
Adjective
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But if Hereditary and Midsommar got under the skin with genuinely scary storytelling and startling imagery and Beau is Afraid was equal parts squirmy and maddening, Eddington is just annoying and empty.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2025
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This is Palace’s’ Comments R Rob M. · 6h 41m ago Listened to the pod (with the annoying ads but that's been flagged on the pod comments).—
The Athletic FC Podcast,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Actions by officials in the two countries are also discouraging Canadian tourists from looking south.—
Skyler Swisher,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Apr. 2025
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Good air circulation will allow leaves and stems to dry out, discouraging disease.—
Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Apr. 2025
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Not just the threat-of-extinction stuff, which includes Bassett’s POTUS debating which American city to blow up as a preemptive gesture, but by its own irritating God’s-eye omniscience that rarely allows the suspense to spool out in the present.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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For some people, double cleansing may be too irritating.—
Sarah Bence,
Verywell Health,
15 May 2025
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Proponents have long invoked civil rights language to promote vouchers, a disturbing rhetorical choice given vouchers originated as a tool for southern white parents to avoid the Supreme Court's desegregation order in Brown v. Board of Education.—
Kevin Sabet,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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Actress Isabella Rossellini reflects on the film’s disturbing material and autobiographical elements while resisting reductive interpretations.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
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“Frustrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frustrating. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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