distraught
Adjective Satellite
- deeply agitated especially from emotion
- "distraught with grief"
Adj
- Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
- Mad; insane.
Examples
- His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English distraught, blend of distract (“distracted”) and straught (“stretched, distraught”), past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”). Compare also bestraught, extraught, forstraught, etc. More at distract, stretch.
Synonyms
overwrought, 5150, agonised, apeshit, bananas, barking, barking mad, barmy, bat-shit, batchy, batcrap, batpoop, bats, batshit, batty, bonkers, bread baskets, buggish, buggy, bughouse, cra-cra, cracked, crackers, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, distressed, disturbed, doolally, dotty, eccentric, fruit loops, fucked in the head, fucked up, gaga, harebrained, hatstand, heartsore, insane, kooky, loco, loon, loony, loony tunes, loopy, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, moonsick, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut, nut job, nutballs, nuts, nutso, nutter, nutty, off the beam, off the chain, over the edge, pained, potty, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, ripshit, screwy, sicko, squirrelly, starkers, tonto, tortured, unbalanced, unsane, wackadoodle, weird, whackjob, whacko, whacky, wode, yampy, zany
Scrabble Score: 15
distraught: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddistraught: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
distraught: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary