Definition for Frustrating:

• preventing realization or attainment of a desire

Synonyms for Frustrating:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • frustrating.
  •defensive (adjective)
  • coping with,
  • Interrupting,
  • in opposition,
  • preservative,
  • guarding,
  • safeguarding.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • unsatisfying,
  • falling short,
  • unfulfilling.
  •hindering (adjective)
  • Entrapping,
  • crippling,
  • Clogging,
  • impeding,
  • constraining,
  • Encumbering,
  • restricting,
  • Obstructing,
  • Resisting,
  • choking,
  • hindering,
  • bottleneck,
  • Handicapping,
  • Complicating,
  • Detaining,
  • constipating,
  • congesting,
  • Restraining,
  • Tangling,
  • inhibiting,
  • blocking,
  • Deterring,
  • Snagging,
  • burdensome,
  • Damming,
  • Snarling,
  • Delaying,
  • Crimping,
  • baffling,
  • Entangling,
  • Cramping,
  • Fouling.
  •irritating (adjective)
  • maddening.
  •maddening (adjective)
  • troubling.

• n.

  •
  • obscene,
  • annoying.
  •frustrating (noun)
  • preventive,
  • preventative.

• v.

  •de-motivating (verb)
  • stifling,
  • depressing,
  • de-motivating,
  • disheartening,
  • dampening,
  • throttling,
  • Disinclining,
  • daunting,
  • Dissuading,
  • discouraging.
  •hindering (verb)
  • Miring,
  • Checking,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Staying,
  • fettering,
  • curbing,
  • stopping,
  • Impairing,
  • Burdening,
  • countering,
  • bottlenecking,
  • jamming,
  • Paralyzing,
  • braking,
  • dragging,
  • catching,
  • Hampering,
  • barring,
  • Plugging,
  • opposing,
  • Bunging.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • lamentable,
  • impossible,
  • wheedling,
  • invasive,
  • damnable,
  • pathetic,
  • silly,
  • footling,
  • unbearable,
  • infuriating.
  •
  • accursed.
  •Other relevant words:
  • beleaguering,
  • upsetting,
  • impedance,
  • Botching,
  • cosseting,
  • featherbedding,
  • balk,
  • slowing,
  • rallying,
  • Oppressing,
  • fumbling,
  • halt,
  • Vitiating,
  • Evading,
  • interdiction,
  • avoidance,
  • Crucifying,
  • Proscribing,
  • check,
  • Scotching,
  • galling,
  • Foxing,
  • hybridizing,
  • befuddling,
  • Coddling,
  • agonizing,
  • pampering,
  • tedious,
  • Prohibiting,
  • Twitting,
  • frightening,
  • excruciating,
  • worrying,
  • crossing,
  • lambasting,
  • kafkaesque,
  • bar,
  • nettlesome,
  • Rebuking,
  • Circumventing,
  • mystifying,
  • confusing,
  • terrifying,
  • baulk,
  • rebarbative,
  • Debarring,
  • inhibition,
  • tracking,
  • banning,
  • controlling,
  • alarming,
  • repression,
  • tantalising,
  • forbiddance,
  • nightmarish,
  • horrible,
  • prevention,
  • Squelching,
  • pestilential,
  • frustratingly,
  • obviating,
  • pesky,
  • covering,
  • bumbling,
  • scolding,
  • disquieting,
  • baulking,
  • stressful,
  • ghastly,
  • dumbfounding,
  • chafing,
  • tough,
  • wrecking,
  • injunction,
  • mitigation,
  • irritating,
  • Babying,
  • regulating,
  • torturing,
  • creepy,
  • Riling,
  • failing,
  • abortion,
  • horrific,
  • Nettling,
  • Jawing,
  • tiresome,
  • berating,
  • forestalling,
  • curb,
  • lecturing,
  • nauseating,
  • deflowering,
  • retardation,
  • indulging,
  • trouncing,
  • forbidding,
  • Bothering,
  • dreadful,
  • Endangering,
  • racking,
  • dispiriting,
  • delay,
  • vexing,
  • disconcerting,
  • aggravating,
  • control,
  • outwitting,
  • trying,
  • Mitigating,
  • perplexing,
  • confounding,
  • raging,
  • Tabooing,
  • hindrance,
  • corrupting,
  • bewildering,
  • Irksome,
  • badgering,
  • scary,
  • tormenting,
  • Rankling,
  • tiring,
  • Traversing,
  • Bilking,
  • tantalizing,
  • bungling,
  • Discomfiting,
  • Deranging,
  • block,
  • coding,
  • enjoining,
  • Carking,
  • distressing,
  • interception,
  • bobbling,
  • baiting,
  • reproofing,
  • mollycoddling,
  • halting,
  • worrisome,
  • foiling,
  • conquering,
  • troublesome,
  • frustration,
  • intersecting,
  • Devilling,
  • Remonstrating,
  • Fatiguing,
  • prohibition,
  • staving off,
  • Enraging,
  • Annulling,
  • anticipation,
  • vexatious,
  • obstruction,
  • stupefying,
  • arrest,
  • Bedeviling,
  • pesty,
  • warding off,
  • Intercepting,
  • frustrated,
  • ban,
  • frustrate,
  • Exposing,
  • exasperating,
  • difficult,
  • Fuddling,
  • Interdicting,
  • Reprimanding,
  • Defeating,
  • awful,
  • Retarding,
  • fending off,
  • disturbing,
  • Dunning,
  • Counteracting,
  • bothersome,
  • Avoiding,
  • ruining,
  • Preventing,
  • Deceiving,
  • arresting,
  • demanding,
  • aborting,
  • mishandling,
  • amazing,
  • taxing,
  • crossbreeding,
  • balking,
  • restraint,
  • bootless,
  • proscription,
  • taboo,
  • preclusion,
  • eluding,
  • Blighting,
  • Bedevilling,
  • dismaying,
  • pestering,
  • debarment,
  • queering,
  • Muffing,
  • taunting,
  • obviation,
  • dashing,
  • Spanning,
  • Neutralizing,
  • fluffing.

Paraphrases for Frustrating:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    discouraging, upsetting, daunting, difficult, foiled, regrettable, embarrassing, Aborted, galling, appalling, irritant, boring, depressed, uncomfortable, unpleasant, onerous, sobering, burdensome, arduous, obstruct, unfortunate, sad, tiresome.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    forestalling, thwarting, Deterring, Counteracting, halting, countering, opposing, foiling, dashing, discouraging.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disappointing, frustrated, disheartening, depressing, unsatisfactory, irritating, distressing, annoying, disappointed, disturbing, dismal, painful, tedious, disheartened, laborious.

Antonyms for Frustrating:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    delightful, pleasing, encouraging, permissive.