frustration

Other forms of frustration

plural

frustrations·

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 frustration

What does frustration mean?

frustration means "the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frustration?

frustration has 3 syllables: fru-stra-tion. The stress falls on "stra". In IPA it is /fɹəˈstɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for frustration?

Close synonyms include defeat, thwarting, foiling. 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 frustration a common word?

frustration is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 frustration?

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