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frustrated

 adjective
     
frus‧trat‧ed
1 feeling annoyed, upset, and impatient, because you cannot control or change a situation, or achieve something:
He gets frustrated when people don't understand what he's trying to say.
frustrated with/at
She had become increasingly frustrated with her life.
sexually frustrated (=feeling dissatisfied because you do not have any opportunity to have sex)
2

a frustrated artist/actor/poet etc

AP someone who wants to develop a particular skill but has not been able to do this
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