Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to frustrate or defeat; disappointing; thwarting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Tending to defeat; fallacious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That which
frustrates (causesfrustration ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective preventing realization or attainment of a desire
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Examples
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And that kind of frustrative behavior is seen in any number of different species and have been shown back in the 1920s in monkeys.
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And that kind of frustrative behavior is seen in any number of different species and have been shown back in the 1920s in monkeys.
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And that kind of frustrative behavior is seen in any number of different species and have been shown back in the 1920s in monkeys.
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And that kind of frustrative behavior is seen in any number of different species and have been shown back in the 1920s in monkeys.
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And that kind of frustrative behavior is seen in any number of different species and have been shown back in the 1920s in monkeys.
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And that kind of frustrative behavior is seen in any number of different species. "
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But as she did not come, the clerks said, not without frustrative intention, "Let us go to her."
Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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But as she did not come, the clerks said, not without frustrative intention, "Let us go to her."
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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This is only frustrative for a small minority of apps as
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