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1. Causing discouragement and frustration
    
2. Preventing realization or attainment of a desire
   - frustrative, thwarting

1. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge";
   - thwart, queer [informal], spoil, scotch, foil, cross, baffle, bilk [informal], scupper [informal]
    
2. Harass persistently in cruel or annoying way
   "The children frustrated the stuttering teacher";
   - torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun
    
3. Deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged
   - discourage

See also: discouraging, preventative, preventive

Type of: beset, chevvy [non-standard], chevy, chivvy, chivy, forbid, foreclose, forestall, harass, harry, hassle [informal], molest, plague, preclude, prevent, provoke

Encyclopedia: Frustrate