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Definition: Flustered |
FlusteredAdjective1. Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flustered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | FLUSTERED. Drunk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: FlusteredSynonyms: hot and bothered(p) (adj), perturbed (adj), rattled (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flustered |
| English words defined with "flustered": fluster, Flusteration. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "flustered": Fluster. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She looked slowly at Al, who stood there flustered and embarrassed |
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| "Flustered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 35.78% of the time. "Flustered" is used about 109 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 35.78% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 32.11% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 23.85% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.26% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "flustered": get flustered. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "flustered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shqetësuar (agitated, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, distempered, distraught, distressed, disturbed, fidgety, flurried, jittery, preoccupied, restless, troubled, troublous, uneasy, vexed, worried). (various references) | |
Chinese | 慌張 . (various references) | |
Finnish | hämmingin vallassa. (various references) | |
German | verwirrte (baffled, bewildered, distracted, embarrassed), verwirrt (baffles, disarranges, disorients), aufgeregt (excited, flutteringly). (various references) | |
Greek | που εκνευρίζεται εύκολα (easily flustered). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zavart (nonplussed, self-conscious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gelagapan (confused, stammer, stutter). (various references) | |
Italian | impappinarsi (falter, get flustered, stumble). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | おみ籤 (all shook up, chubby person, clog, congratulations, dressing up, in a dither, lounging about, my goodness!, my!, nervous, not to mention, oh!, oh?, sexual intercourse, vagina, written oracle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おろおろ (all shook up, in a dither, nervous). (various references) | |
Manx | fud y cheilley (at variance, chaotic, confused, confusing, confusion, dishevelled, disorder, disordered, embarrassed, mixed up, muddle, muddled, perplexed, tangled, topsy-turvy). (various references) | |
Norwegian | oppskjørtet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | usteredflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | afobado (fiddle-faddle, nervous). (various references) | |
Romanian | ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, silly, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | usplahiren. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flustered": flusteredly. (additional references) | |
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"Flustered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faustered, flistered, flutered, glustered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flustered" (pronounced flu"sterd) |
| 6 | -l u" s t er d | clustered. |
| 5 | -u" s t er d | bustard, custard, mustard, mustered. |
| 4 | -s t er d | administered, bastard, blistered, bolstered, cloistered, festered, filibustered, fostered, mastered, pestered, plastered, registered, sequestered, unregistered, upholstered. |
| 3 | -t er d | altered, bantered, bartered, battered, bettered, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cluttered, countered, cratered, lettered, littered, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, fettered, filtered, flattered, fluttered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, martyred, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, muttered, neutered, pattered, petard, petered, reentered, scattered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-l-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: deluster, lustered, resulted. | |
-2 letters: duelers, eluders, feruled, ferules, fluster, fluters, fuelers, lustred, reflets, refuels, refused, refuted, refutes, restful, rustled, strudel, teledus, telfers. | |
-3 letters: defers, defter, defuse, delfts, desert, deters, dueler, duster, elders, eldest, eluder, eludes, eluted, elutes, etudes, felted, ferule, fester, fleers, fleets, fluted, fluter, flutes, freest, fueled, fueler, furled, lefter, leudes, lusted. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-l-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: defaulters, sulfureted. | |
+2 letters: flusteredly, outfielders, sulfuretted. | |
+3 letters: filibustered, surefootedly. | |
+4 letters: disrespectful, unfriendliest. | |
+5 letters: fraudulentness, tetrafluorides. | |
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