Home › Words › F › flustrateflustrateflustrate means to fluster or frustrate.EtymologyFrom fluster + -ate (verb-forming suffix).verbTo fluster or frustrate.e.g.“We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch” — 1712 October 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “WEDNESDAY, September 25, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 493; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], voluDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.flustration 86% match — The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry or flustering. vs flustrate →fluster 78% match — To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse. vs flustrate →flusteration 76% match — The state of being flustered; agitation. vs flustrate →flustering 75% match — Agitated, confusing. vs flustrate →flusterer 75% match — One that flusters vs flustrate →bumfuzzle 74% match — To confuse or fluster. vs flustrate →flusteredly 73% match — In a flustered manner. vs flustrate →flustered 72% match — Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion. vs flustrate →