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English
Etymology
From frustrate + -ive.
Adjective
frustrative (comparative more frustrative, superlative most frustrative)
- That frustrates; causing frustration.
Translations
Noun
frustrative (uncountable)
- (grammar) A mood indicating frustration.
2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 381 seqq.:The frustrative marked with the clitic -tha indicates that the action was 'frustrated', that it has failed already or is bound to fail; or that the success of an action is not yet certain.