frustrated as in 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"
Synonyms
- defeatedpeople who are defeated; beaten or overcome; disappointingly unsuccessful
- disappointeddisappointingly unsuccessful
- discomfitedpeople who are defeated; disappointingly unsuccessful
- foileddisappointingly unsuccessful
- thwarteddisappointingly unsuccessful