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Definition of Frustrative
1. Adjective. Preventing realization or attainment of a desire.
Similar to: Preventative, Preventive
Derivative terms: Frustrate
Definition of Frustrative
1. a. Tending to defeat; fallacious.
Definition of Frustrative
1. Adjective. That which frustrates (causes frustration). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frustrative
Literary usage of Frustrative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology by John Mackinnon Robertson, Rationalist Press Association (1903)
"We have been brought to the supernatural as a primitive product of (a) the
recognition of irregular and frustrative forces ire nature, ..."
2. Present-day Papers on Prominent Questions in Theology by Alexander Ewing (1871)
"... as they cannot produce the effect, are necessarily frustrative of it—frustrative,
that is, of the Gospel, of which the efficiency surely is signified ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"frustrative, (fnis'-tra-tiv) a. Fallacious ; disappointing. FRY, (fri) ni The
swarm of little fishe» just produced from the spawn. To FRY, (fri) ». a. ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1901)
"... more frustrative to law or more elusive to its grasp than the traffic in liquor.
Will you prohibit its sale? Only the keenest vigilance can keep your ..."
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