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Distraught

Distraught Meaning & Definition
Distraught Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Distraught?

[adj] deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Distraught: agitated | overwrought

Related Terms | Find terms related to Distraught: 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

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Distraught In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis*traught"\, p. p. & a. [OE. distract, distrauht. See {Distract}, a.] 1. Torn asunder; separated. [Obs.] ``His greedy throat . . . distraught.'' --Spenser. 2. Distracted; perplexed. ``Distraught twixt fear and pity.'' --Spenser. As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror. --Shak. To doubt betwixt our senses and our souls Which are the most distraught and full of pain. --Mrs. Browning.

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