SUPREME WORD DU JOUR: FRUSTRANEOUS

  SUPREME WORD DU JOUR:

FRUSTRANEOUS

 

PRONUNCIATION:

(Fruhs-Tay-Nee-Uhs)

MEANING:

(adjective): Useless; unprofitable.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin frustra (in vain). Earliest documented use: 1643.

USAGE:

"As the author of Onania expresses it, a 'frustraneous [exercise] ... center[ing] in nothing but the pleasure of sense."
Anne Elizabeth Carson; "Exquisite Torture"; Eighteenth-Century Studies; Summer 2007.

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