frustraneous
Dec. 30th, 2014 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordfrustraneous (frus-TRAY-nee-us) - adj., useless, vain, unprofitable.
Leading to frustration. While it looks like a colorful 19th century Americanism coined on the model of extraneous, it actually dates to 1643. Kinda obsolete now, alas.
---L.
Leading to frustration. While it looks like a colorful 19th century Americanism coined on the model of extraneous, it actually dates to 1643. Kinda obsolete now, alas.
---L.
