🙉 Causing distraction 🧲 Pulling apart

distractive

1 5.7

Makes someone lose focus and stop paying attention

adjective
/dɪˈstræktɪv/

: distractor

Wearing headphones helped block out the distractive noises from the street.

Examples

The distractive noise made it hard to concentrate.
He found the bright lights in the office to be distractive during meetings.
The constant notifications on her phone were extremely distractive while she was studying.
His distractive comments interrupted the meeting.
The loud music was so distractive that I couldn't concentrate on my homework.
Her constant phone notifications were distractive, making it hard for him to focus on his work.
During the meeting, his side conversations were distractive to the main discussion.

Synonyms

disorienting

vsdistractive

14 6.0

Making someone feel confused and unable to find their way

causes attention to wander without causing confusion or loss of direction

Antonyms

focused

638 3.0

Giving full attention to one thing

How Distracting

overwhelming

414 4.4

disruptive

64 5.8

distractive

1 5.7

diverting

5 5.5

unobtrusive

8 6.7

Surface Forms

distractive positive

Morphology

distractive = distract (transparent) = distract + ive

Clear adjectival formation from 'distract' + '-ive'; meaning 'causing someone to lose attention' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Distractive comes from the Latin parts dis- 'apart' and tract 'pull', the same root as in attract but with the idea of 'away'. So something distractive 'pulls' your attention away or 'pulls apart' your focus, which is why it makes you lose concentration.