frustration
part of speech
noun (frustration, frustrations)
meaning for a pupil
1) A cross, upset feeling you get when you cannot do something or cannot get what you want. tree →
2) A thing that causes this feeling. tree →
3) Frustration can also mean the act of stopping someone's plans from succeeding. tree →
sense in the lessons
In lessons about feelings, frustration comes when a puzzle is hard or a game goes wrong. Children learn calm ways to deal with it: take a deep breath, take a break, ask for help, try again. In stories, frustration can make a character give up or try harder. Phrases: «in frustration», «feel frustration», «a source of frustration».
examples
- He kicked the ball in frustration when he missed. tree →
- Learning to ride a bike can cause frustration at first. tree →
- Take a deep breath when you feel frustration. tree →
- One frustration of camping is the rain. tree →
- She groaned with frustration at the long sum. tree →
- Talking to someone can help you let your frustration go. tree →
- But the wicked woman was furious at the frustration of her own evil designs, and only thought of what harder thing she could set the girl to do. tree →
note
Mostly uncountable (the feeling); countable for things that cause it: «small frustrations». Verb: frustrate; adjectives: frustrated (how you feel), frustrating (what causes it). Frustration is normal; hitting or breaking things is not the right way to show it.
In the corpora
- In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes, because play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy.
- In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes; play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy.
- That shout is a way of letting out frustration, called venting.
- Shouting at the TV is venting, letting out frustration; it changes nothing, and it is not about the child.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «frustration» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.