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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
distracted \distract"ed\, a.
mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.
1913 webster
my distracted mind. --pope.
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- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
distract \distract"\, v. t. imp. p. p. distracted, old p.
p. distraught; p. pr. vb. n. distracting.
1. to draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
1913 webster
a city . . . distracted from itself. --fuller.
1913 webster
2. to draw the sight, mind, or attention in different
directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the
eye; to distract the attention.
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mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination.
--goldsmith.
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3. to agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of
motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
1913 webster
horror and doubt distract
his troubled thoughts. --milton.
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4. to unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to
madden; -- most frequently used in the participle,
distracted.
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a poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her.
--shak.
1913 webster
see also:
distracted distraught distracting
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
distracted
adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad,
sick, unbalanced, unhinged
2: having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
syn: distrait
see also:
brainsick crazy demented disturbed mad sick
unbalanced unhinged distrait
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
103 moby thesaurus words for "distracted":
abandoned, abashed, abroad, adrift, amok, astray, at sea,
bellowing, berserk, bewildered, bothered, careless, carried away,
clueless, confused, delirious, demoniac, discomposed, disconcerted,
dismayed, disoriented, disregardant, disregardful, distrait,
distraught, distressed, disturbed, ecstatic, embarrassed,
enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied,
fulminating, furious, guessing, haggard, harassed, heedless,
hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle,
in a scrape, in a stew, in a transport, in hysterics, inadvertent,
inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inobservant, intoxicated,
lost, mad, madding, maniac, mazed, negligent, off the track,
orgasmic, orgiastic, perturbed, possessed, put-out, rabid, raging,
rambling, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, regardless, roaring,
running mad, storming, thoughtless, tormented, transported,
troubled, turned around, uncontrollable, unheedful, unheeding,
unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant,
unobserving, unremarking, upset, violent, wandering, wild,
wild-eyed, wild-looking, without a clue, worried
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