Words that rhyme with frustrating

• actuating 0
  adj 1: causing motion or action or change [syn: activating(a), actuating(a)]
• adulterating 0
  adj 1: making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials; "the adulterating effect of extraneous materials" [syn: adulterating, adulterant] [ant: purifying]
• aggravating 0
  adj 1: making worse [syn: aggravating, exacerbating, exasperating]
• agitating 0
  adj 1: causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a provoking delay at the airport" [syn: agitative, agitating, provoking]
• alienating 0
  adj 1: causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden alienating aloofness"
• alternating 0
  adj 1: (of a current) reversing direction; "alternating current" [ant: direct] 2: occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate" [syn: alternate(a), alternating(a)]
• ameliorating 0
  adj 1: tending to ameliorate [syn: ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative]
• animating 0
  adj 1: giving spirit and vivacity [syn: animating, enlivening]
• annihilating 0
  adj 1: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering] 2: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: annihilating, devastating, withering]
• annotating 0
  n 1: the act of adding notes [syn: annotation, annotating]
• assimilating 0
  adj 1: capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; "an assimilative substance [syn: assimilating, assimilative, assimilatory]
• baiting 0
  n 1: harassment especially of a tethered animal
• berating 0
  n 1: a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him" [syn: berating, blowing up]
• calculating 0
  adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd]
• captivating 0
  adj 1: capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman" [syn: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating]
• circulating 0
  adj 1: passing from one to another; "circulating bills and coins"
• congregating 0
  n 1: the act of congregating [syn: congregation, congregating]
• coordinating 0
  adj 1: serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction; "`and' in `John and Mary' or in `John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is `or' in `will you go or stay?'" [syn: coordinating(a), coordinative] [ant: subordinating(a), subordinative]
• dating 0
  n 1: use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens [syn: dating, geological dating]
• debilitating 0
  adj 1: impairing the strength and vitality [ant: invigorating]
• delegating 0
  n 1: authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions [syn: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation, deputation]
• denigrating 0
  adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]
• deprecating 0
  adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting]
• depreciating 0
  adj 1: tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value; "a depreciating currency"; "depreciatory effects on prices" [syn: depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory]
• devastating 0
  adj 1: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: annihilating, devastating, withering] 2: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering] 3: physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" [syn: crushing, devastating]
• disgusting 0
  adj 1: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
• dominating 0
  adj 1: most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" [syn: ascendant, ascendent, dominating] 2: used of a height or viewpoint; "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom" [syn: commanding, dominating, overlooking] 3: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and- mighty, magisterial, peremptory]
• elating 0
  adj 1: making lively and joyful [syn: elating, exhilarating]
• enervating 0
  adj 1: causing debilitation [syn: debilitative, enervating, enfeebling, weakening]
• equating 0
  n 1: the act of regarding as equal [syn: equation, equating]
• exacerbating 0
  adj 1: making worse [syn: aggravating, exacerbating, exasperating]
• exasperating 0
  adj 1: extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening" [syn: exasperating, infuriating, maddening, vexing] 2: making worse [syn: aggravating, exacerbating, exasperating]
• excruciating 0
  adj 1: extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome]
• exhilarating 0
  adj 1: making lively and cheerful; "the exhilarating effect of mountain air" [syn: exhilarating, stimulating] 2: making lively and joyful [syn: elating, exhilarating]
• extenuating 0
  adj 1: partially excusing or justifying; "extenuating circumstances"
• fascinating 0
  adj 1: capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story" [syn: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting] 2: capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman" [syn: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating]
• fluctuating 0
  adj 1: having unpredictable ups and downs; "fluctuating prices"
• frustrate 0
  v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk] 2: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate]
• frustrated 0
  adj 1: disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" [syn: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted]
• grating 0
  adj 1: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy] n 1: a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air [syn: grate, grating] 2: a frame of iron bars to hold a fire [syn: grate, grating] 3: optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum [syn: diffraction grating, grating]
• hesitating 0
  adj 1: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly [syn: hesitant, hesitating]
• hibernating 0
  adj 1: in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs" [syn: dormant, hibernating(a), torpid]
• humiliating 0
  adj 1: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying]
• illuminating 0
  adj 1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture" [syn: enlightening, informative, illuminating] [ant: unenlightening, unilluminating]
• infuriating 0
  adj 1: extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening" [syn: exasperating, infuriating, maddening, vexing]
• ingratiating 0
  adj 1: capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile" 2: calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner" [syn: ingratiating, insinuating, ingratiatory]
• inoculating 0
  n 1: the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating" [syn: inoculating, vaccinating]
• insinuating 0
  adj 1: calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner" [syn: ingratiating, insinuating, ingratiatory]
• integrating 0
  n 1: the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community [syn: integration, integrating, desegregation] [ant: segregation, sequestration]
• intimidating 0
  adj 1: discouraging through fear [syn: daunting, intimidating]
• intoxicating 0
  adj 1: causing [syn: intoxicant, intoxicating] 2: extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic [syn: heady, intoxicating]
• invalidating 0
  adj 1: establishing as invalid or untrue [syn: disconfirming, invalidating]
• invigorating 0
  adj 1: imparting strength and vitality; "the invigorating mountain air" [ant: debilitating]
• iodinating 0
  adj 1: combining or causing to combine with iodine; "the active iodinating species"; "the in vivo iodinating mechanism" [ant: de-iodinating]
• irritating 0
  adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing] 2: (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; "an irritative agent" [syn: irritating, irritative] 3: causing physical discomfort; "bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful" [syn: irritating, painful]
• isolating 0
  adj 1: relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
• lactating 0
  adj 1: producing or secreting milk; "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows" [syn: wet, lactating] [ant: dry]
• legislating 0
  n 1: the act of making or enacting laws [syn: legislation, legislating, lawmaking]
• locating 0
  n 1: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement] 2: a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" [syn: localization, localisation, location, locating, fix]
• lovemaking 0
  n 1: sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life" [syn: sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life]
• mating 0
  n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
• moderating 0
  adj 1: lessening in intensity or strength [ant: intensifying]
• motivating 0
  adj 1: impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments" [syn: motivative(a), motive(a), motivating] n 1: the act of motivating; providing incentive [syn: motivation, motivating]
• muckraking 0
  n 1: the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures)
• nauseating 0
  adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]
• obviating 0
  adj 1: made impossible [syn: preclusive, obviating(a)]
• officiating 0
  n 1: the act of umpiring; "the officiating was excellent" [syn: umpirage, officiation, officiating, refereeing]
• operating 0
  adj 1: involved in a kind of operation; "the operating conditions of the oxidation pond" 2: being in effect or operation; "de facto apartheid is still operational even in the `new' African nations"- Leslie Marmon Silko; "bus service is in operation during the emergency"; "the company had several operating divisions" [syn: operational, in operation(p), operating(a)]
• orientating 0
  adj 1: positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually; "noticed the bee's momentary orienting pause before heading back to the hive"; "an orienting program for new employees" [syn: orienting, orientating] [ant: disorienting]
• oscillating 0
  adj 1: having periodic vibrations [syn: oscillatory, oscillating]
• palpitating 0
  adj 1: having a slight and rapid trembling motion; "palpitant movements rather than violent eruptions"; "my palpitating heart" [syn: palpitant, palpitating]
• penetrating 0
  adj 1: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp] 2: tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing; "a toxic penetrative spray applied to the surface"; "a cold penetrating wind"; "a penetrating odor" [syn: penetrative, penetrating]
• permeating 0
  adj 1: spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion" [syn: permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive]
• placating 0
  adj 1: intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech" [syn: appeasing(a), placating, placative, placatory]
• plating 0
  n 1: a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface [syn: plating, metal plating] 2: the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
• radiating 0
  adj 1: diverging from a common point
• rating 0
  n 1: an appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship" [syn: evaluation, valuation, rating] 2: act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of [syn: evaluation, rating] 3: standing or position on a scale 4: rank in a military organization [syn: military rank, military rating, paygrade, rating]
• regenerating 0
  adj 1: that are generating anew; "regenerating fibers"
• regulating 0
  n 1: the act of controlling or directing according to rule; "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians" [syn: regulation, regulating]
• relegating 0
  n 1: authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions [syn: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation, deputation]
• resonating 0
  adj 1: characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative]
• skating 0
  n 1: the sport of gliding on skates
• slating 0
  n 1: thin layers of rock used for roofing [syn: slate, slating] 2: a severely critical attack; "the reviewers gave his book a sound slating" 3: the act of laying slates for a roof
• stimulating 0
  adj 1: rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion" [ant: unexciting, unstimulating] 2: that stimulates; "stimulant phenomena" [syn: stimulant, stimulating] 3: making lively and cheerful; "the exhilarating effect of mountain air" [syn: exhilarating, stimulating]
• suffocating 0
  adj 1: causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless" [syn: smothering, suffocating, suffocative]
• titillating 0
  adj 1: pleasantly and superficially exciting 2: giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing [syn: erotic, titillating] 3: exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements [syn: tickling, tingling, titillating]
• undeviating 0
  adj 1: going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside; "some people see evolution as an undeviating upward march from simple organisms to the very complex"; "a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands" [syn: undeviating, unswerving] 2: used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady; "undeviating loyalty"
• unhesitating 0
  adj 1: characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was unhesitating" [syn: unhesitating, resolute]
• updating 0
  n 1: the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something); "criminal records need regular updating"
• vaccinating 0
  n 1: the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating" [syn: inoculating, vaccinating]
• vacillating 0
  adj 1: uncertain in purpose or action [syn: vacillant, vacillating, wavering]
• validating 0
  adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
• venerating 0
  adj 1: feeling or manifesting veneration [syn: respectful, reverential, venerating]
• waiting 0
  adj 1: being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "military forces ready and waiting" [syn: waiting, ready and waiting(p)] n 1: the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him" [syn: wait, waiting]
• overrating 0
  n 1: a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high [syn: overestimate, overestimation, overrating, overreckoning]
• deregulating 0
  n 1: the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) [syn: deregulation, deregulating]
• abating 0
• abbreviating 0
• abdicating 0
• abrogating 0

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