Synonyms for frustration
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Disappointment
disappointment, bafflement, defeat, failure, discomfiture, miscarriage
Other
balking US, baulking UK, dash, nullification
Definitions
- n. 1
The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
- n. 2
The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
Forms
- Plural
- frustrations → thwartings, foilings, disappointments, bafflements…
Example sentences
- disappointment The new teacher was a disappointment to the class.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| frustration | rising | |
| disappointment | rising | |
| bafflement | rising | |
| balking | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- dash1
- 6 letters
- defeat2
- 7 letters
- failure2, foiling2, balking2
- 8 letters
- baulking
- 9 letters
- thwarting2
- 10 letters
- bafflement
- 11 letters
- miscarriage3
- 12 letters
- discomfiture
- 13 letters
- nullification5
- 14 letters
- disappointment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (defeat2 = 2 syllables).