disheartening, exasperating, maddening, difficult, disappointing, demoralizing, infuriating, heartbreaking, distressing, tedious, disconcerting, annoying, baffling, stressful, rewarding, painful, depressing, perplexing, sad, embarrassing, unfortunate, confusing, galling, exhausting, humbling, tricky, dispiriting, gratifying, tough, excruciating, puzzling, bothersome, scary, miserable, satisfying, irritating, discouraging, troubling, inconvenient, problematic, agonizing, awful, hard, mystifying, unnerving, saddening, tiresome, horrible, unsettling, unenjoyable, laborious, torturous, troublesome, boring, enjoyable, complicated, unbelievable, frightening, weird, irksome, surprising, horrendous, terrible, hectic, costly, strange, bittersweet, surreal, arduous, distracting, unsatisfying, bewildering, cumbersome, pointless, aggravating, challenging, fruitless, pleasing, daunting, inexcusable, exciting, tortuous, anticlimactic, uncomfortable, eventful, dicey, embarassing, fiddly, bad, interesting, easy, unhelpful, regrettable, ironic, tired, shocking, unrewarding, sloppy, bizarre, unreal, wearisome, happy, racking, wracking, disillusioning, grueling, nightmarish

black eye, blow, bummer, reversal, reverse, setback, trial, tribulation, tsuris, visitation

hindrance, interference, interfering

foiling, frustration, frustrative, preventative, preventive, thwarting