distraught
86
7.2
- adjective
- /dɪˈstrɔt/
:
angustiado
- When she heard the news of her friend's accident, she became completely distraught and couldn't stop crying.
- emotionally distraught
- distraught parents
- so distraught
People are getting increasingly angry and distraught and resentful.
- People are getting increasingly angry and distraught and resentful.
- If you're not distraught, then you're happy.
- But if you set the bar of happy as anything over distraught, then you're always happy.
- So I would be, I would be so distraught.
- So she finds this, and she, of course, is beyond distraught.
- For what it's worth, man, last time you were here, you seemed stressed, distraught.
- So OK, he's just like, he's distraught.
- Fast forward in November and I was, you know, I was distraught about what was happening in this country.
- That I think would be viewed as a lot of people as a typical behavior for a distraught mother of a missing child.
- But obviously Chris got sent off and I see him and he was, he was absolutely distraught.
- That's that's comes from when I was homeless, I was so distraught at one point I cut a deal with God.
- And people are getting increasingly distraught because the benchmarks are more and more out of reach.
Examples
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When his mother heard the news, she was distraught, though she put a brave face on it.
Academic text (2011) -
My father looked distraught and as if he had been crying for a while.
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Well, as you know, in that story, I was very distraught about what happened.
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Fast forward in November and I was, you know, I was distraught about what was happening in this country.
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The Solicitor General, John Cook, was distraught over how the trial was going so far.
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Maya had been so distraught over the comments that she stayed home from school that day.
Academic text (2011) -
When I got there, I found Valerie terribly distraught.
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By evening, Josephine Hoffa was distraught at the failure of her husband to call or come home.
Academic text (1995) -
In other situations, care teams were created to support distraught caregivers or elders struggling with addiction.
Academic text (2006) -
Leatha Crabb's tiny and distraught image looked up at him from the screen.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
163
3.9
Extremely emotional in a way that seems out of control
35
2.9
Feeling very upset, worried, or hurt
19
7.0
Feeling very upset and in deep emotional pain
14
3.6
Feeling very sad because of loss or disappointment
13
7.8
Feeling very nervous and upset because of strong emotion
12
6.7
Very sad and shocked after losing someone close
10
7.2
Very sad and not able to be comforted
7
6.1
Too upset to stay calm under pressure
2
4.3
Feeling shocked and disappointed when something unexpected happens
2
8.2
Very sad and not able to be comforted
1
7.5
Not comforted after feeling sad or disappointed
Very upset because of sudden events or news
Very upset and sad after something bad happens
Antonyms
How Upset
Surface Forms
Etymology
Distraught comes from the parts dis- ('apart') and tract ('pull' or 'draw'), the same root you see in tractor. Think of being 'pulled apart' inside — that's why distraught means so upset and unable to think clearly.