Distrait

Definition: Distrait

Distrait

Adjective

1. Having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety.

Date "distrait" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Etymology: Distrait \Dis`trait"\, adjective. [French expression See Distract.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Distrait (French). Absent-minded. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Distrait

Synonym: distracted (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inattention	Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Distrait

Non-English Usage: "Distrait" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (absent minded, absentminded, abstracted, broody, careless, far away, forgetful, inattentive, negligent, vacant, wandering).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Distrait (1970)

Max est distrait (1910)

Le Conférencier distrait (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Distrait du désastre (reference) Le voyageur distrait : roman (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Le Distrait - Les Malheurs D`Alfred [IMPORT] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Distrait" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Distrait" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "distrait"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		разсеян (absent, absent minded, diffuse, disseminated, forgetful, moony, oblivious, preoccupied, rare, scatter-brained, stray, unmindful, vacant, wandering, wool gathering), невнимателен (careless, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, inurbane, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, unattentive, unheeding, unkind). (various references)

Czech		roztìkaný (absentminded, inattentive). (various references)

Hebrew		לא מרוכז (distracted). (various references)

Hungarian		szórakozott (absent minded, absentminded, abstracted, faraway look, inattentive, jaywalker, lightheaded, light-headed, preoccupied, scatter-brained), figyelmetlen (forgetful, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, mindless, negligent, perceptive, reckless, regardless, thoughtless, unmindful, unobservant, unperceptive). (various references)

Indonesian		bingung (confused, disoriented, mixed up, panicky, perplexed, perturbed, puzzled, rattled, wool-gathering). (various references)

Pig Latin		istraitday

Portuguese		distraído (absent-minded, abstracted, careless, distracted, distraught, inobservant, light-headed, negligent, unheeding, unthinking, wandering), desatento (carefree, careless, deaf, harebrained, inattentive, inobservant, light-minded, listless, mindless, regardless, scatterbrained, unobservant), abstrato (absent, absent-minded, abstract, chill). (various references)

Russian		рассеянный (absent, absentminded, absent-minded, diffuse, disseminated, dissipated, distracted, moony, vague, wool gathering). (various references)

Spanish		divertido (amused, amusing, comic, comical, diverting, droll, enchanting, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, jolly, merry), distraído (absent, absentminded, absent-minded, abstracted, amusing, casual, distracted, dreamy, entertaining, faraway, heedless, inattentive, lackadaisical, moony, unobservant, untidy, vacant, vague, wandering). (various references)

Turkish		dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, dreamy, engrossed, far away, far off, faraway, glassy, lost, meditative, moony, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, self-absorbed, stargazer, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vacuous, vague, wandering, wistful, woolgathering). (various references)

Ukrainian		неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, careless, erratic, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague). (various references)

Vietnamese		lãng trí, đãng trí (wool-gathering). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "distrait": distraite. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Distrait" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bistrita, destra, destrait, Diatraea, Disgrazia, distraints, distraite, distraut, distri, distrib, Distrito. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-r-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: diarist.
	-2 letters: artist, strait, strati, traits, triads.
	-3 letters: adits, airts, astir, darts, dirts, ditas, drats, irids, radii, raids, sitar, staid, stair, start, stria, tarsi, tarts, titis, trait, triad, tsadi.
	-4 letters: adit, aids, airs, airt, aits, arid, arts, dais, dart, dirt, dita, dits, drat, irid, iris, rads, raid, rats, rias, rids, sadi, said, sard, sari.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: distraint, distraite.
	+2 letters: dermatitis, distraints, pediatrist, podiatrist, stratified, traditions.
	+3 letters: arteritides, arthritides, distracting, distraction, distractive, gastritides, keratitides, mithridates, pediatrists, podiatrists, taxidermist.
	+4 letters: administrant, administrate, dermatitides, dermatitises, dictatorship, disintegrate, disorientate, dissertating, dissertation, distortional, distractible, distractions, distributary, ditransitive, editorialist, extraditions, ingratitudes, interstadial, intimidators, stridulating, stridulation, taxidermists, trepidations, unstratified.
	+5 letters: administrants, administrated, administrates, administrator, adventuristic, antimodernist, dictatorships, dilatometries, disarticulate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrator, disorientated, disorientates, dissertations, distractingly, ditransitives, dramatisation, editorialists, indoctrinates, industrialist, intermediates, interstadials, misattributed, repristinated, stridulations, tetraploidies, traditionless, transactinide.
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