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Frustrate vs Infuriate - What's the difference?

frustrate | infuriate |

As verbs the difference between frustrate and infuriate

is that frustrate is to disappoint or defeat; to vex by depriving of something expected or desired while infuriate is to make furious or mad with anger; to enrage.

As adjectives the difference between frustrate and infuriate

is that frustrate is vain; ineffectual; useless; nugatory while infuriate is enraged, furious.

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")

    infuriate

    English

    Verb

    (infuriat)
  • To make furious or mad with anger; to enrage

    • Synonyms

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enraged, furious.
  • * 1929 , (Frederic Manning), The Middle Parts of Fortune , Vintage 2014, p. 336:
  • *:‘A'll not leave thee,’ said Weeper in an infuriate rage.
    • (Milton)
  • * Thomson
    • Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath.
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