Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; void; of no effect.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Literally, to break or interrupt; hence, to defeat; to disappoint; to balk; to bring to nothing; as, to frustrate a plan, design or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
2. To disappoint; applied to persons.
1. To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
2. To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
Defeated; disappointed; rendered vain or null.
of Frustrate
In vain.
Disappointment Roget’s Thesaurus §509
N. disappointment, blighted hope, balk, blow, anticlimax, slip 'twixt cup and lip, nonfulfillment of one's hopes, sad disappointment, bitter disappointment, trick of fortune, afterclap, false expectation, vain expectation, miscalculation, fool's paradise, much cry and little wool
V. be disappointed, look blank, look blue, look aghast, stand aghast, find to one's cost, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth, find one a false prophet, not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation, disappoint, frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure) 732, crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage, balk, jilt, bilk, play one false, play a trick, dash the cup from the lips, tantalize, dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish) 870
Phr. the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse, parturiunt montes, nascitur ridiculus mus, diis aliter visum, the bubble burst, one's countenance falling
Hindrance Roget’s Thesaurus §706
N. prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage, embolus, embolism, infarct, interruption, interception, interclusion|, hindrance, impedition|, retardment, retardation, embarrassment, oppilation|, coarctation, stricture, restriction, restraint, inhibition, blockade, interference, interposition, obtrusion, discouragement, discountenance, impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag, check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil, bar, stile, barrier, turnstile, turnpike, gate, portcullis, beaver dam, trocha, barricade, wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne, bulkhead, block, buffer, stopper, boom, dam, weir, burrock, drawback, objection, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, lion in the path, snag, snags and sawyers, encumbrance, incumbrance, clog, skid, shoe, spoke, drag, drag chain, drag weight, stay, stop, preventive, prophylactic, load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta, dead weight, lumber, pack, nightmare, ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea, remora, difficulty, insuperable, obstacle, estoppel, ill wind, head wind, trammel, tether, hold back, counterpoise, damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy, party pooper, party crasher, interloper, trail of a red herring, opponent
V. hinder, impede, filibuster, impedite, embarrass, keep off, stave off, ward off, obviate, avert, antevert|, turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud, retard, slacken, check, let, counteract, countercheck, preclude, debar, foreclose, estop, inhibit, shackle, restrict, obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock, block, block up, choke off, belay, barricade, block the way, bar the way, stop the way, forelay, dam up, put on the brake, scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel, put a stop to, traverse, contravene, interrupt, intercept, oppose, hedge in, hedge round, cut off, inerclude|, interpose, interfere, intermeddle, cramp, hamper, clog, clog the wheels, cumber, encumber, incumber, handicap, choke, saddle with, load with, overload, lay, lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience, incommode, discommode, discompose, hustle, corner, drive into a corner, run foul of, fall foul of, cross the path of, break in upon, thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil, faze, feaze, feeze, baffle, snub, override, circumvent, defeat, spike guns, spoil, mar, clip the wings of, cripple, put an extinguisher on, damp, dishearten, discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport, lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on, cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine, be in the way of, stand in the way of, act as a drag, hang like a millstone round one's neck
Adj. hindering, obstructive, obstruent, impeditive, impedient, intercipient|, prophylactic, impedimentary, in the way of, unfavorable, onerous, burdensome, cumbrous, cumbersome, obtrusive, hindered, windbound, waterlogged, heavy laden, hard pressed, unassisted &c. (see assist ), single-handed, alone, deserted
Phr. occurrent nubes
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6 KJV and 9 BSB verses contain “frustrate”
And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
Then said I, Speak on, my lord, in me; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.
And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, even death is now fallen upon them, and their sin hath overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done: