Frustrate vs Confuse - What's the difference?
frustrate | confuse |
To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
To hinder or thwart.
To cause stress or panic
To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
(obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
To mistake one thing for another.
As verbs the difference between frustrate and confuse
is that frustrate is to disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired while confuse is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.As an adjective frustrate
is vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.frustrate
English
Verb
(frustrat)- It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
- My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
- This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.