frustrating

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty.

   The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).

2. 2
   adj

   discouraging by hindering

3. 3
   adj

   preventing realization or attainment of a desire

4. 4
   verb

   present participle and gerund of frustrate

Etymology

From frustrate + -ing.