🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

frustrado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: frustrado

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Frustrated/ˈfrʌs.trɪ.eɪ.tɪd/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele ficou frustrado com o resultado do teste."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Feeling or showing annoyance and anger because of inability to achieve something or make a change.

    "She felt frustrated by the lack of progress on the project."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'frustratus', past participle of 'frustrare' meaning 'to deceive, disappoint, or make vain', dating back to the early 17th century. Over time, the semantic scope shifted from a sense of being deceived or baffled to the modern psychological state of annoyance arising from thwarted ambitions or unmet expectations.

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