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distractedadjective feeling overwhelming fear or worryshe's been distracted about her son ever since he left on that polar expedition agitated, delirious, distrait, distraught, frantic, frenzied, hysterical(also hysteric) alarmed, anxious, disquieted, disturbed, nervous, perturbed, tense, troubled, upset, worried, wrought (up)affrighted, aghast, alarmed, fearful, frightened, horrified, scared, spooked, terrified, terrorizedballistic, berserk, crazed, demented, deranged, mad, maniacal(also maniac), nuclearraging, ranting, raving beside oneself collected, composed, recollected, self-collected, self-composed, self-possessed, unhysterical calm, peaceful, placid, self-possessed, serene, tranquilcool, coolheaded, undisturbed, unperturbed, unshaken, untroubled, unworried lost in thought and unaware of one's surroundings or actionsthe distracted driver rear-ended the pickup truck that had stopped for the red light absent, absentminded, abstracted, preoccupied absorbed, daydreaming, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, intent, pensive, raptheedless, inattentive, insensible, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unheeding, unknowing, unmindful, unperceptive, unthinking, unwary, unwitting, vacantbefogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, birdbrained, clueless, confused, dazed, flighty, foggy, forgetful, forgetting, hazy, muddled, scatterbrained, unfocused(also unfocussed) alert alive, attentive, aware, conscious, engaged, heads-up, heedful, mindful, observant, observing, open-eyed, sharp, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awakeclearheaded suffering from mental confusionshe's been chronically depressed and distracted since her husband's death addle, addled, addlepated, bedeviled, befogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, bushed(chiefly Australian), confounded, confused, dazed, dizzy, dopey(also dopy), fogged, mixed-up, muddleheaded, muzzy, pixilated(also pixillated), punch-drunk, punchy, raddled, shell-shocked, silly, slaphappy, spaced-out(or spaced), spacey(also spacy), stunned, stupefied, zonked, zonked-out senseless, unconscious at sea, out of it clearheaded alert, conscious distractedverbpast tense of distractto draw the attention or mind to something elsewe were distracted from our discussion by the noise outside abstracted, called off, detracted, diverted, threw off amused, beguiled, entertainedstrayed, wandered concentrated, focused(also focussed) to trouble the mind of; to make uneasydistracted by the looming tax deadline agitated, ailed, alarmed(also alarumed), bothered, concerned, derailed, discomforted, discomposed, dismayed, disquieted, distempered, distressed, disturbed, exercised, flurried, frazzled, freaked (out), fussed, hagrode, perturbed, undid, unhinged, unsettled, upset, weirded out, worried aggravated, angered, annoyed, bugged, chafed, chivied(or chivvied), exasperated, fretted, galled, got, grated, harassed, harried, irked, irritated, nettled, peeved, pestered, piqued, put off, put out, riled, vexed(also vext)bedeviled, haunted, plaguedabashed, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, discountenanced, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, jarred, mortified, nonplussed(also nonplused), rattled, shook updaunted, demoralized, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, unnerved calmed, composed, quieted, settled, soothed, tranquilized(also tranquillized) allayed, alleviated, assuagedappeased, conciliated, mollified, pacified, placated, propitiated adj.abstracted, preoccupied, absent, absentminded, distracted mean inattentive to what claims or demands consideration.abstracted implies absorption of the mind in something other than one's surroundings, and often suggests reflection on weighty matters.walking about with an abstracted air preoccupied often implies having one's attention so taken up by thoughts as to neglect others.too preoccupied with her debts to enjoy the meal absent stresses inability to fix the mind on present concerns due more to mental wandering than to concentration on other matters.an absent stare absentminded implies that the mind is fixed elsewhere and often refers to a habit of abstractedness.so absentminded, he's been known to wear mismatched shoes distracted may suggest an inability to concentrate caused by worry, sorrow, or anxiety.was too distracted by grief to continue working in 1576 |