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Frustrative

Definition: Frustrative

Frustrative

Adjective

1. Preventing realization or attainment of a desire.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Frustrative \Frus"tra*tive\, adjective. Tending to defeat; fallacious. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Frustrative

Synonyms: frustrating (adj), thwarting (adj). (additional references)

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Rhyming with "Frustrative"

Words rhyming with "frustrative" (pronounced 'Frus"tra*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Frustrative

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-r-r-s-t-t-u-v"

-2 letters: frustrate, starfruit.

-3 letters: fritters, fruiters, furriest, straiter, tarriest, tartufes, trustier, turfiest.

-4 letters: arrives, artiest, artiste, artsier, attires, fairest, fattier, fatties, fauvist, fitters, fraters, friseur, fritter, fruiter, furtive, fustier, iratest, rafters, ratites, ratters, rattier, restart, revuist, ritters, rustier, ruttier, situate, starter, starver, stative, stature, strafer, striate, striver, stuiver, surfeit, surfier, tarries, tarsier, tartufe, tastier.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Frustrative


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 72 75 73 74 72 61 74 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-.    ..-    ...    -    .-.    .-    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#114 &#117 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 0075 0073 0074 0072 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4084878586846786758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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