Definition of Frustrative

1. Adjective. Preventing realization or attainment of a desire.

Exact synonyms: Frustrating, Thwarting
Similar to: Preventative, Preventive
Derivative terms: Frustrate

Definition of Frustrative

1. a. Tending to defeat; fallacious.

Definition of Frustrative

1. Adjective. That which frustrates (causes frustration). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frustrative

frusto-conical
frustoconical
frustrable
frustraneous
frustrate
frustrated
frustratedly
frustrately
frustrates
frustrating
frustratingly
frustration
frustration-aggression hypothesis
frustration tolerance
frustrations
frustrative (current term)
frustratory
frustrum
frusts
frustule
frustules
frustum
frustums
frutage
frutages
frutefull
frutescent
frutex
frutexes
fruticant

Literary usage of Frustrative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology by John Mackinnon Robertson, Rationalist Press Association (1903)
"We have been brought to the supernatural as a primitive product of (a) the recognition of irregular and frustrative forces ire nature, ..."

2. Present-day Papers on Prominent Questions in Theology by Alexander Ewing (1871)
"... as they cannot produce the effect, are necessarily frustrative of it—frustrative, that is, of the Gospel, of which the efficiency surely is signified ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"frustrative, (fnis'-tra-tiv) a. Fallacious ; disappointing. FRY, (fri) ni The swarm of little fishe» just produced from the spawn. To FRY, (fri) ». a. ..."

4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1901)
"... more frustrative to law or more elusive to its grasp than the traffic in liquor. Will you prohibit its sale? Only the keenest vigilance can keep your ..."

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