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# frustrating

«frustrating» in Mova's school dictionary: **Frustrating describes something that makes you feel cross…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Frustrating describes something that makes you feel cross and upset because you cannot do or change it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#m1)

2) Frustrating is the «-ing» form of «frustrate». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x1)
- Learning to ride a bike can be frustrating at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x2)
- It was a frustrating day; nothing went right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x3)
- Losing the last piece of the puzzle is frustrating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x4)
- Waiting for the bus in the rain was frustrating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x5)
- The game was frustrating, but fun in the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/#x6)
- The bad weather kept frustrating the climbers' plans. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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!).

### In the corpora

- [When something is frustrating, a short break and asking for help work better than giving up or breaking things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/94-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings/23/)
- [Getting better at anything takes practice, and practice can be frustrating.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/2/)
- [When practice is frustrating, break the skill into small steps and practise one at a time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/305-fishing-practising-and-shared-gear/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frustrating» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frustrating/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.