frustration

[Frus*tra·tion]

Frustration is a feeling of annoyance that occurs when something doesn't go as you expect. There are few things more likely to cause frustration for an impatient driver than rush hour traffic.

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The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

Noun
an act of hindering someone''s plans or efforts

Noun
a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"

Noun
the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals


n.
The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs


Frustration

Frus*tra"tion , n. [L. frustratio: cf. OF. frustration.] The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

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Usage Examples

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

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Other Usage Examples

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

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