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 →

2) Frustrating is the «-ing» form of «frustrate». tree →

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 →
• Learning to ride a bike can be frustrating at first. tree →
• It was a frustrating day; nothing went right. tree →
• Losing the last piece of the puzzle is frustrating. tree →
• Waiting for the bus in the rain was frustrating. tree →
• The game was frustrating, but fun in the end. tree →
• The bad weather kept frustrating the climbers' plans. tree →
• Before he went, he succeeded in frustrating a project for closing the Tuileries Gardens against the people of Paris and their children. tree →

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.
• Getting better at anything takes practice, and practice can be frustrating.
• When practice is frustrating, break the skill into small steps and practise one at a time.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «frustrating» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.