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Frustrate vs Disappointment - What's the difference?

frustrate | disappointment |

As a verb frustrate

is to disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.

As an adjective frustrate

is vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory.

As a noun disappointment is

(uncountable) the emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.

frustrate

English

Verb

(frustrat)
  • To disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired.
    • It frustrates me to do all this work and then lose it all.
  • To hinder or thwart.
    • My clumsy fingers frustrate my typing efforts.
  • To cause stress or panic
    • This test frustrates me because if I fail, it'll destroy my grade.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory
  • * Shakespeare
    • Our frustrate search.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "frustrate")

    disappointment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
    • Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."'' — ''Today , News Group Newspapers Ltd, 1992
  • (countable) A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
    As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.'' — ''Cabinet , Hennessy, Peter, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990

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    * disappoint