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# frustrating

adjective (frustrating, more frustrating, most frustrating); verb form (frustrating, from frustrate)

«frustrating» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Frustrating describes something that makes you feel cross and upset because you cannot do or change it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#m1)
2. Frustrating is the «-ing» form of «frustrate». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and school, losing things, slow internet, tricky homework and waiting can be frustrating; in stories it shows a problem the hero must overcome. Phrases: «so frustrating», «it's frustrating when...», «a frustrating day».

### Examples

- It's so frustrating when the ball keeps going over the fence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x1)
- Learning to ride a bike can be frustrating at first. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x2)
- It was a frustrating day; nothing went right. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x3)
- Losing the last piece of the puzzle is frustrating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x4)
- Waiting for the bus in the rain was frustrating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x5)
- The game was frustrating, but fun in the end. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x6)
- The bad weather kept frustrating the climbers' plans. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x7)
- Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating a project for closing the Tuileries Gardens against the people of Paris and their children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x8)

### Note

Trap: «-ing» vs «-ed»: the thing is frustrating; the person is frustrated. Not «I am frustrating» (unless you mean you annoy others!).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «frustrating» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«frustrating» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/frustrating.html) on Mova free.