frustrative

English

Etymology

From frustrate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

frustrative (comparative more frustrative, superlative most frustrative)

  1. That frustrates; causing frustration.

Translations

Noun

frustrative (uncountable)

  1. (grammar) A mood indicating frustration.
    • 2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia‎[1], Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 381 seqq.:
      The frustrative marked with the clitic -tha indicates that the action was 'frustrated', that it has failed already or is bound to fail; or that the success of an action is not yet certain.
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