Distraught

Definition: Distraught

Distraught

Adjective

1. Deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief".

Date "distraught" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Distraught

Synonym: overwrought (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insanity	Corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered; (uncertain).
Uncertainty	In a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze; bushed, off the track; ignorant.; afraid to say; out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift; at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus; puzzled; Verb: lost, abroad, d_sorient_; distracted, distraught.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Distraught

English words defined with "distraught": maenad. (references)

Etymologies containing "distraught": Bestraught ♦ Extraught ♦ Forstraught. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A distraught pilgrim : poems (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Distraught woman and seated man. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Play	Caption
	Berserk; beside oneself; blazing; carried away; convulsive; crazed; crazy; delirious; distracted; distraught; emotional; excited; agitated; fiery; frantic; frenzied; fuming; furious; impassioned; impetuous; incensed; irrepressible; mad; maddened; nervous.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Often, the calls are more complex, such as distraught patients or family members seeking access to a drug that has not been approved. (references)
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"Distraught" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Distraught" is used about 268 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%	268	17,996

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Language		Translations for "distraught"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i trallisur (dizzy), i shqetësuar (agitated, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, distempered, distressed, disturbed, fidgety, flurried, flustered, jittery, preoccupied, restless, troubled, troublous, uneasy, vexed, worried), i merakosur (anxious, preoccupied, uneasy, worried). (various references)

Arabic		‏ذاهل (absent, at sea, distracted, faraway, moonstruck), ‏شديد الضطراب. (various references)

Bulgarian		смутен (abashed, confused, constrained, disconcerted, embarrassed, muddle-headed, muzzy, perplexed, perturbed, raddle, self conscious, sheepish, uneasy, unrestful), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly). (various references)

Chinese		烦乱. (various references)

Czech		rozrušený (agitated, disconcerted, excited, fussed, keyed). (various references)

Farsi		پریشان حواس , ناراحت (Fidgety, Tense, Uncomfortable, Uneasy, Unhandy, Upset), شوریده (Berserk, Crazy, Phrenetic). (various references)

French		affolé, éperdu (distracted), égaré. (various references)

German		bestürzt (aghast, dismayed, filled with consternation, perplexed, shocked, upset). (various references)

Greek		τρελόσ (crack-brained, crazy, cuckoo, daft, demented, haywire, lunatical, mad, madding, screw-ball). (various references)

Hungarian		megzavarodott (baffled, befuddled, mixed, perplexed, unbalanced). (various references)

Italian		turbato (dazed, disturbed, disturbing, perplexed, upset), sconvolto (distracted, shattered, unsettled, upset). (various references)

Pig Latin		istraughtday

Portuguese		distraído (absent-minded, abstracted, careless, distracted, distrait, inobservant, light-headed, negligent, unheeding, unthinking, wandering), perturbado (ajar, disturbed, troubled, troublous, unquiet, unsettled), louco (brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, far gone, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, maniacal, nuts, phrenetic, raving, wacky). (various references)

Romanian		nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), aiurit (blunder-head, distracted, driveller, drivelling, flighty, foolish, giddy, hare-brained, irresponsible, light-headed, muddle-head, nut, oddball, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, twaddling, whiffler, wool gathering, wrongheaded). (various references)

Russian		потерявший рассудок. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zbunjen (abashed, ablush, aghast, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, embarrassed, loss: at a loss, nonplussed, puzzled, quizzical), uzrujan (agitated, nervous, overwrought, upset), poremećen (deranged, distempered, distracted, disturbed, out of order), lud (berserk, bonkers, buggy, crazy, daft, demented, head: off his head, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, nut, nut: off one's nut, nuts). (various references)

Spanish		muy perturbado, loco (amok, amuck, barmy, bonkers, bugs, crack-brained, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dunce, fogey, half wit, haywire, hectic, idiot, jenny ass, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, mad, madman, nutty, out of one's mind, round the bend, up the pole, wall eyed, wet, whacky, wild, zany), inquietísimo. (various references)

Swedish		utom sig (frantic, in a stew). (various references)

Turkish		deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched), perişan (confused, dead beat, dead end, desolate, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, run down, scattered, seedy, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), kendinden geçmiş (beside oneself, distracted, ecstatic, enrapt, entranced, gone, intoxicated, rapt, rapturous, senseless, slaphappy, unconscious), çıldırmış (bereft of reason, bereft of senses, crazy, frantic, insane). (various references)

Ukrainian		знавіснілий (distracted), збентежений (abashed, bewildered, confused, disconcerted, ill at ease, puddled). (various references)

Vietnamese		quẫn trí (addle-brained, distracted, hinge), mất trí (chump, distracted, insane, loose, nut, nutty), điên cu�"ng (demented, distracted, frantic, frenezied, insane, loco, wild). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ebria, ebriam, ebrii, ebriis, ebriorum, ebrius. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "distraught": distraughtly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Distraught" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: distaught, distraite, distraought, distraudht, distraugh, distrauht, distraut, distrought, distrught. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "distraught" (pronounced di'strô"t)
3	-r ô" t	brought, fraught, overwrought, wrought.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-i-r-s-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: draughts, straight.
	-3 letters: athirst, dishrag, draught, dustrag, guisard, guitars, rattish, ruttish, tartish, turista.
	-4 letters: aguish, airths, aright, artist, audits, aughts, aurist, dhutis, dights, garish, garths, ghauts, girths, gradus, gratis, griths, guards, guitar, hiatus, radish, radius, rights, shaird, strait, strath, strati, taught, thirds, thirst, thrust, tights, tragus, traits, triads, truths, turgid.
	-5 letters: adits, adust, agist.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-g-h-i-r-s-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: draughtiest.
	+2 letters: distraughtly.
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