frustration

Definition

  • noun: a feeling of anger or annoyance caused by being unable to do something
  • noun: the act of 'frustrating'
  • synonyms: ambivalence, ambivalence of impulse, annulment

Examples

  • These bureaucratic delays have been causing us a lot of 'frustration'.

  • These delays have proven to be a major 'frustration'.

  • He was angry about the 'frustration' of his plans.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) $ over his price that no one in his right mind would do that and he wouldn't have a lunatic living in his house. He worked out his frustration with life on the creek every morning. And in the evenings, to temper the sting of loneliness, there was Martha Shaw. Martha was a war widow (..)
    2004 The Notebook