frustrator

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noun

Someone who frustrates (hinders, thwarts, disconcerts) the plans or aims of another person.

OriginLatin frūstrātor →
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Meanings

nounfrustrator (plural frustrators)

plural frustrators

  1. Someone who frustrates (hinders, thwarts, disconcerts) the plans or aims of another person.

    Technology will be the ultimate facilitator or frustrator of international crime. In either case, the United States will be at the center as the principal exporter or victim of criminal activity.

    2003, L. R. Scheman, Greater America, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 53

Origin

  1. Latinfrūstrātor
  2. Englishfrustrator

Borrowed from Latin frūstrātor. Doublet of frustrater.

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APA

frustrator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frustrator

MLA

“frustrator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frustrator. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frustrator,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frustrator.

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