frustrative
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Preventing realization or attainment of a desire: Describing something that thwarts, blocks, or prevents the fulfillment of a wish, goal, or ambition.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The constant bureaucratic delays were deeply frustrative to the project team.
- She found the lack of clear communication to be a frustrative obstacle in her career.
Advanced Usage
- In psychological or formal contexts: The term is often used in academic, psychological, or formal writing to describe conditions, systems, or behaviors that systematically prevent goal achievement.
- The study examined the frustrative effects of unpredictable rewards on animal behavior.
Variants and Related Words
- Frustrate (verb): To prevent (a plan or effort) from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled.
- The bad weather frustrated our plans for a picnic.
- Frustration (noun): The feeling of being upset or annoyed as a result of being unable to change or achieve something.
- He quit his job out of sheer frustration.
- Frustrating (adjective): Causing feelings of frustration.
- It was a frustrating experience trying to assemble the furniture.
Synonyms
- Thwarting: Preventing someone from accomplishing something.
- Stultifying: Causing to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine.
- Inhibiting: Hindering, restraining, or preventing an action or process.
Antonyms
- Facilitative: Making an action or process easy or easier.
- Enabling: Giving someone or something the authority or means to do something.
- Conducive: Making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible.
Notes on Usage
- Formality: "Frustrative" is a more formal and less common adjective than "frustrating." It is typically used to describe the inherent nature of a barrier or condition itself, rather than the emotional response it provokes.
- Grammatical Role: It functions as a descriptive adjective and can be used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like "be" or "seem").
Adjective
- preventing realization or attainment of a desire