Dictionary Definition
distraught adj : deeply agitated especially from
emotion; "distraught with grief" [syn: overwrought]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.
- His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.
Derived terms
Translations
Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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
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