Fluster

Definition: Fluster

Fluster

Noun

1. A disposition that is confused or nervous and upset.

Verb

1. Be flustered; behave in a confused manner.

2. Cause to be flustered or consternated.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fluster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Note: Fluster \Flus"ter\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Flustered; Flustering.]. (references)

Synonym: Fluster

Excitability

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Excitation

Agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.

Feeling

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Inattention

Call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head; disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider, fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus.

Crosswords: Fluster

Swedish (beehive entrance).

Albanian

trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), trazim (agitation, commotion, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, disturbance, dust, elaboration, fidget, flurry, flutter, immixture, kneading, melange, mixing, mixture, perturbation, poke, turbidity, turbulence), shqetësohem (care, fash, feeze, fret, fuss about, get excited, go off the deep end, take on, trouble, worry), nervozim (exasperation), acaroj (aggravate), acarim (aggravation, exacerbation, irritation, snap, sourness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هاج (carry along, carry away, excite, fling about, flush, inflame, kindle, ramp, rave, seethe, thrill, toss, vex), ‏حير (baffle, befog, bewilder, confound, distract, floor, flummox, mystify, nonplus, perplex, put off one's fears, puzzle, riddle, vex), ‏سكر (candy, conserve, get drunk, intoxicant, liquor, sloshed, souse, sugar, sweeten, take to drink, tank up), ‏خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, craze, dementia, derange, distract, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), ‏إهتياج مرتبك, ‏أربك (baffle, bamboozle, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bother, buffalo, confound, confuse, demoralize, discompose, disconcert, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, floor, fox, fret, fuddle, gravel, molest, muckrake, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, ravel, show up, squirm, stop, stumble, stump, vex). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развълнувам (flutter, groove, move, penetrate, shake, wind up, work on), тревога (agitation, alarm, alert, anxiety, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, flurry, inquietude, perturbation, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry), обърквам (abash, addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), обърканост (blankness, complexity, confusion, distraction, fog, harassment, indigestion, involution, maze, muddle, puzzle, puzzlement), нервирам (needle, piss off). (various references)

Czech

zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, chaos, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter). (various references)

French

faire embarrasser, troubler (flurry), trouble (flutter), rendre ivre, embarrasser (floor, flummox), agiter (fling, flurry, flutter), agitation (flop, flounce, flurry, flutter), abrutir, énerver. (various references)

German

verwirrung (confusion, bafflement, bewilderment, perplexity, puzzlement), verwirren (confuse, bewilder, muddle, puzzle, tangle), aufregen (agitate, excite, to excite). (various references)

Greek 

έξαψη (dither, excitement, flush, petulance, rampage, spurt, tizzy, twitter), συγχίζω (confuse), αναστατώνω (confound, disorganize, disrupt, upset), ταραχή (riot, trepidation). (various references)

Hebrew 

להתרגש (be excited, be moved, get excited), לגרום התרגשות (perturb). (various references)

Hungarian

nyugtalanság (commotion, restlessness, disquietude), izgalom (flurry, excitement, thrill). (various references)

Italian

sconvolgere (derange, disconcert, disturb, perturb, throw into confusion, unsettle, upset), rendere nervoso, eccitazione (excitation, excitement), disordinare (disarrange, discombobulate, distract), agitazione (agitation, commotion), agitare (stir). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

周章狼狽 (consternation, discomfiture, dismay, fall into a panic, fluster oneself). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうしょうろうばい (consternation, discomfiture, dismay, fall into a panic, fluster oneself). (various references)

Manx

musthaa (bustle, carry on, display, excitement, flap, fuss, hullabaloo, muster, pomposity, pompousness, row, rumpus, shindy, stir, strife, tumult). (various references)

Pig Latin

usterflay.(various references)

Portuguese

fervura (boil), perturbar (disquiet, perturb), inebriar (inebriate, intoxicate), excitar (excite), excitação (stimulus), enervar (enervate, fidget, rile, unnerve), desorientar (addle, baffle, bewilder, disorient, disorientate, disturb, dizzy, flap, flummox, gravel, maze, muddy, nonplus, perplex, perturb, puzzle, stun), confundir (confuse, puzzle), agitação (agitation, commotion, tumult), afobar, afobação (flurry, panic). (various references)

Romanian

frãmântare (agitation, anxiety, discomposure, fermentation, flutter, fret, fretfulness, kneading, torture, trepidation, unrest, worry), fierbinţealã (Ardor, ardour, excitement, fervour, fever, fire, heat, hot-bloodedness, warmth), tulburare (agitation, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfort, disorder, disturbance, excitement, feeling, flap, flurry, interruption, invasion, perturbation, revolt, trouble, unrest, vexation), se tulbura (break down), se agita (agitate, billow, bustle, ferment, flutter, fret, fuss, hitch, rustle, seethe, squirm, toss, tumble, vibrate, wag), se îmbãta uşor, ameţi (amaze, anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, bewilder, dizzy, fuddle, get dizzy, intoxicate, stagger, stun, stupefy). (various references)

Russian 

конфузить (disconcert, embarrass, put smb. out), возбуждение (excitation, excitement), возбуждаться (get excited), волновать (perturb), подпоить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzbuđenje (affection, arousal, excitation, excitement, furor, furore, taking, thrill), usplahiriti (flummox). (various references)

Spanish

confundir (distract). (various references)

Swedish

förvirring (confusion, flurry), förvirra (bemuse, confound, confuse, perplex). (various references)

Turkish

telaşlanmak (be alarmed, ferment, flap, get flurried, take on), telaşlandırmak (alarm, excite, flurry, fuss, hasten, put in a flurry, ruffle), sarhoş etmek (befuddle, inebriate, intoxicate, make drunk, pickle, turn smb.'s head), iki ayağını bir pabuca sokmak (flurry, hasten, rush smb. off one's feet), heyecanlanmak (be excited, be hyped up, flush, get excited, hot up, loose countenance, stir, take on, thrill, work oneself up), bocalamak (be in two minds, falter, flounder, fluctuate, get confused, halt, oscillate, stagger, teeter, vacillate, waver, wobble). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвилювати (affect, agitate, amove, appeal, commove, disturb, embroil, excite, ferment, inflame, perturbate, pother, reck, tempest, worry), метушитися (bustle, clutter, fidget, fuss, fuss about, scurry, trot about), замішання (amazement, bewilderment, discomfiture, dither, nonplus, puzzle, puzzlement). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự xôn xao (flurry, perturbation, stir), sự náo động (excitement, ferment, fermentation, flurry, riot, tumultuousness, turmoil), sự bận rộn, sự bối rối sự nhộn nhịp. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fluster": flustered, flusteredly, flustering, flusters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fluster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fauster, flister, Flusser, fluther, folastre, Fulter, funster, ilustre. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fluters, restful.

-1 letter: fluter, flutes, luster, lustre, result, rustle, sutler, ulster.

-2 letters: felts, fetus, flues, flute, frets, fuels, furls, fusel, lefts, lures, lutes, rules, trues, tules, turfs.

-3 letters: efts, erst, felt, fets, feus, flue, flus, fret, fuel, furl, furs, fuse, left, lest, lets, lues, lure, lust, lute, refs, reft, rest, rets, rues, rule, ruse, rust, ruts.

+1 letter: flouters, flusters, flutters, frustule, refutals, sulfuret, truffles, turfless.

+2 letters: filatures, flaunters, fluorites, flustered, fruitless, fruitlets, frustules, masterful, resentful, restfully, resultful, ruffliest, stressful, sulfurets, ultrasafe, unrestful, uplifters.

+3 letters: artfulness, defaulters, filibuster, flustering, flutterers, formulates, fulgurates, fulgurites, futureless, respectful, restfuller, sulfureted, trisulfide.

+4 letters: butterflies, carefullest, distressful, fearfullest, featureless, filibusters, fluorescent, fluoridates, fluorinates, flusteredly, fretfulness, frugalities, fruitlessly, hurtfulness, interfluves, lactiferous, masterfully, outfielders, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, platterfuls, plattersful, pluperfects, prestigeful, quatrefoils, resentfully, restfullest, restfulness, ruthfulness, spitefuller, stressfully, sulfureting, sulfuretted, superfluity, tearfulness, trisulfides, tumblerfuls, ultrafiches.