'Distraught' definitions:
Definition of 'distraught'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief" [syn: distraught, overwrought]
Definition of 'Distraught'
From: GCIDE
- Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distracted, old p. p. Distraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Distracting.]
- 1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. [1913 Webster]
- A city . . . distracted from itself. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention. [1913 Webster]
- Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. [1913 Webster]
- Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. [1913 Webster]
- A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Distraught'
From: GCIDE
- Distraught \Dis*traught"\, p. p. & a. [OE. distract, distrauht. See Distract, a.]
- 1. Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] "His greedy throat . . . distraught." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Distracted; perplexed. "Distraught twixt fear and pity." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Which are the most distraught and full of pain. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'distraught'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abashed,
- abnormal,
- abroad,
- addled,
- adrift,
- agitated,
- astray,
- at sea,
- batty,
- bereft of reason,
- berserk,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- brainsick,
- clueless,
- concerned,
- confused,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- delirious,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- feverish,
- flighty,
- flustered,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- guessing,
- hallucinated,
- harassed,
- hysterical,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lost,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- muddled,
- nervous,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- nonplussed,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nuts,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- off the track,
- overwrought,
- perturbed,
- psycho,
- put-out,
- queer,
- rambling,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- tormented,
- touched,
- troubled,
- turned around,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- upset,
- wandering,
- wild,
- without a clue,
- witless,
- worked up,
- wrought up