frustration

Meanings

Plural: frustrations

Noun

• the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
• an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
• a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized
  • "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"
• The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
• The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
• The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
• The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
• A thing that frustrates.
• Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.

Synonyms

defeat, foiling, thwarting