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distraught
Meaning: deeply upset and unable to think clearly
distraught in a sentence
How distraught is used in real sentences:
The distraught parents waited outside the emergency room for news.
The distraught witness struggled to describe what she had seen.
“At the 1997 symposium, Venn looked distraught when a speaker displayed her early note without the uncertainty surrounding it.”
— from the passage The Bone That Would Not Settle
Synonyms for distraught
Other words for distraught — frantic, anguished and distressed — carry the same meaning.
- frantic
- anguished
- distressed
Antonyms of distraught
Words that mean the opposite of distraught:
- calm
- composed
- tranquil
Where it comes from
An alteration of distract, from Latin distrahere, meaning 'to pull apart.'
Memory hook
DISTRAUGHT sounds like 'distressed thought': too upset to think clearly.
Practice distraught in the app