Meanings
comparative more frustrative · superlative most frustrative
- That frustrates; causing frustration.
- uncountablegrammarA mood indicating frustration.
The frustrative marked with the clitic -tha indicates that the action was 'frustrated', that it has failed already or is bound to fail; or that the success of an action is not yet certain.
2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 381 seqq.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivepreventing realization or attainment of a desire
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish turhauttava
- turhauttavathat frustrates
Cite this entry
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