: causing feelings of anger and annoyance : tending to produce or characterized by frustration
a frustrating delay
a very frustrating experience
Mischel concludes that having the willpower to wait isn't about being stoic. It's about learning techniques that make waiting less frustrating. Pamela Druckerman
frustratinglyadverb
a frustratingly slow process
The book is sprawling and self-indulgent. Most frustratingly, it is almost entirely devoid of serious military analysis. Hew Strachan
All these delays have been very frustrating. these daily traffic jams are frustrating
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VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, prove令人沮喪;證明令人沮喪▸➤become, get變得令人沮喪▸➤make sth使⋯讓人沮喪▸➤find sth發覺⋯令人沮喪◇I found the delays intensely frustrating.我覺得這些延誤極其令人沮喪。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.令人極度/相當/非常沮喪▸➤deeply, incredibly, intensely, particularly, terribly使人深感沮喪;令人極為沮喪;特別令人受挫;令人非常沮喪▸➤increasingly越來越令人沮喪▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/有幾分令人沮喪▸➤ultimately令人沮喪到極點◇It was an ultimately frustrating experience.那是一次令人沮喪至極的經歷。PREPOSITION➤for令⋯沮喪◇It was rather frustrating for all of us.這事令我們所有人都頗為沮喪。