- frustrating - discouraging by hindering
Antonym: encouraging (indirect, via discouraging)
- frustrating, frustrative, thwarting - preventing realization or attainment of a desire
Antonym: permissive (indirect, via preventive)
- thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk - hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
--1 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun frustration3, noun frustration1, noun frustration2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate - treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
--2 is one way to harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun frustration3
The performance is likely to frustrate Sue