English Explanatory Dictionary

distraught

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
  2. Mad; insane.

Pronunciation

/dɪsˈtɹɔːt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-distraught.wav

Word forms

distraught more distraught most distraught

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

distressed heartsore pained agonised/agonized tormented tortured cracked demented 5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets crackers cra-cra 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 deranged distraught disturbed doolally dotty eccentric fruit loops gaga hatstand harebrained insane kooky loon loco loony loony tunes loopy lunatic mad mental mentally ill meshigener meshugge moonsick nerts

Derived words

distraughtly distraughtness undistraught
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