frustrar

Borrowed from Latin frūstrāre. First attested in 1405.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fɾusˈtɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fɾusˈtɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: frus‧trar

frustrar (first-person singular present frustro, first-person singular preterite frustrí, past participle frustrat)

1. (transitive) to frustrate

• frustració

• “frustrar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “frustrar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “frustrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin frustrāre.

• IPA^(key): /fɾusˈtɾaɾ/ [fɾus̺ˈt̪ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: frus‧trar

frustrar (first-person singular present frustro, first-person singular preterite frustrei, past participle frustrado)

1. to frustrate

• “frustrar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “frustrar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Latin frūstrāre (“to deceive, trick”).

• Hyphenation: frus‧trar

frustrar (first-person singular present frustro, first-person singular preterite frustrei, past participle frustrado)

1. (transitive) to frustrate; to annoy (to cause mental stress)
2. (transitive) to frustrate; to thwart (to prevent from being successfully completed)

   Synonym: malograr

• “frustrar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “frustrar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “frustrar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “frustrar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “frustrar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “frustrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin frūstrāre.

• IPA^(key): /fɾusˈtɾaɾ/ [fɾusˈt̪ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: frus‧trar

frustrar (first-person singular present frustro, first-person singular preterite frustré, past participle frustrado)

1. (transitive) to frustrate

• “frustrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024