frustrate

Other forms of frustrate

past tense

frustrated·

present participle

frustrating·

third person

frustrates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about frustrate

What does frustrate mean?

frustrate means "hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frustrate?

frustrate has 2 syllables: frus-trate. The stress falls on "frus". In IPA it is /ˈfɹʌˌstɹeɪt/.

What is another word for frustrate?

Close synonyms include thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frustrate a common word?

frustrate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with frustrate?

10 words rhyme with frustrate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.