What's the difference between frustrated and nonplussed?

Frustrated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Frustrate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (2) He had been extremely frustrated that indicators of economic recovery over the past few days had been drowned out by the clamour over the Labour leadership.
  • (3) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (4) The pattern of results is consistent with a role for the dorsal bundle in attentional processes but appears to contradict the predictions required if the dorsal bundle were to have a role in frustrative nonreward.
  • (5) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
  • (6) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (7) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
  • (8) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
  • (9) "It's immensely frustrating and I've got to the point now where I can't do internships," he said.
  • (10) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
  • (11) Hinton-Teoh says: “People are frustrated because it’s taken so long, there’s a valid frustration of the laboured nature of achieving marriage equality.
  • (12) In many ways, perhaps, but it also must be hugely frustrating for Arsenal’s followers that their team waited until the second leg before reminding us of their qualities.
  • (13) It frustrates customers, eats up their data allowance and can jeopardise their privacy.
  • (14) These results support Frankl's theory that sexual frustration may be a manifestation of a more general existential frustration.
  • (15) Manchester City frustrated by Everton and Sterling’s late penalty claim Read more More than anyone, Giroud took the game to Liverpool.
  • (16) His normally excellent first touch often let him down and he grew frustrated with the constant attention he received from his Colombian markers.
  • (17) Are we moving from a culture where MPs stayed in parliament until booted out, to one where many do five years and move on, frustrated and exhausted?
  • (18) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
  • (19) In the not too distant past, veterinarians, frustrated by lack of technical competence, ignored the emotional needs of clients.
  • (20) Troh, a 54-year-old nursing assistant, issued a statement on Wednesday that said: “I trust a thorough examination will take place regarding all aspects of his care … I am now dealing with the sorrow and anger that his son was not able to see him before he died.” That appeared to be a reference to frustration at the hospital’s initial failure to diagnose him correctly, and a delay of several days before they treated him with experimental drugs.

Nonplussed


Definition:

  • () of Nonplus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He lay on his back with his shoulders on the grass, his colleagues standing around, too nonplussed to yell their praises.
  • (2) A source close to Clegg said: "Nick is pretty nonplussed to find himself as the only leading member of the coalition government prepared to uphold the human rights commitments made to Hong Kong by two leading Conservatives – John Major and Chris Patten.
  • (3) But other restaurant owners in the city seemed a little nonplussed about the so-called sugar tax.
  • (4) And the 45-year-old repeated the trick in May this year, this time lasting 45 minutes alongside a presumably nonplussed Nicolas Anelka in the Shenhua attack against Argentina CN Sports.
  • (5) Spain’s prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has insisted that any regional vote would be illegal, but locals are nonplussed by the government’s stubborn stance.
  • (6) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
  • (7) City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
  • (8) His grandmother, when she first heard about his arrest, seemed nonplussed by the whole affair.
  • (9) He looks slightly nonplussed when the song is mentioned.
  • (10) But no complaints.” While Mourinho suggested there should have been 20 minutes of stoppage time at the end of the game, Alan Pardew was nonplussed by the six minutes that were added and Mourinho’s ball-boy-related comments.
  • (11) Other countries landed with big bills, though nowhere on the scale of the British cheque, such as Italy and the Netherlands were also nonplussed and demanding explanations from Brussels.
  • (12) Well organised protesters have blocked buses, unfurled banners and distributed flyers to tech commuters who have seemed either nonplussed, embarrassed or downright terrified.
  • (13) Slightly nonplussed when this did not happen, he grabbed his keys and got out, forgetting his mobile phone on the dashboard.
  • (14) Hagle, a veteran observer of Iowa politics, said locals were nonplussed by outsiders’ responses to Ernst.
  • (15) With Joel and Avram Glazer, two of United’s owners, present for the training session that was to follow, Mourinho was nonplussed by the episode and the general disappointing nature of the eight-day tour, which ends after the City match.
  • (16) The Arab spring revolts of 2011 left Washington nonplussed.
  • (17) "Every time the camera cuts to Marcello Lippi looking nonplussed, the phrase 'First as tragedy, then as farce' pops unbidden into my brain," writes Scott W. "Just me?"
  • (18) McGregor was probably somewhat nonplussed by all this.
  • (19) Merkel appeared nonplussed, struggling to reconcile her positions as leader of the Christian Democrats with that of leader of the most important EU country.
  • (20) Howe sounded almost nonplussed after seeing his side run up a record league win, and inflict a record home defeat on a Birmingham side reduced to 10 men after barely five minutes.