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distraught

/dɪsˈtɹɔːt/

distraught adjective: deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.

Adjective

distraught (comparative more distraught, superlative most distraught)

  1. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
    • His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.
    • […]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters.2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)
    Synonyms:
    distressed, heartsore, pained, agonised/agonized, tormented, tortured
  2. Mad; insane.

distraught meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

distraught in Hindi

deeply hurt, saddened, or worried
परेशान pareśān

distraught in Tamil

மிக கவலையுற்ற

distraught in Urdu

deeply hurt, saddened, or worried
پریشان pareśān

distraught in Bengali

অত্যন্ত বিচলিত, শোকার্ত, মানসিকভাবে বিপর্যস্ত
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distraught in Malayalam
വ്യഗ്രമനസ്കനായ, സംക്ഷുബ്ധനായ, മനോവ്യഥയുള്ള, ചിന്താകുല
distraught in Kannada
ಗೊಂದಲಿಸಿದ, ಗೊಂದಲಗೊಂಡ, ಬೇಗುದಿಗೊಂಡ, ದುಗುಡಗೊಂಡ
distraught in Punjabi
ਪਰੇਸ਼ਾਨ pareśān
distraught in Thai
กระวนกระวาย grà-won-grà-waai, ว้าวุ่นใจ

Examples of distraught in a sentence

  • “I can’t believe wordle would do me like that with RUPEE why 😭😭,” said another distraught fan.
  • A wonderful coworker came into the office the other morning quite distraught about her dog.
  • Who benefits from seeing daily pictures of Madeleine McCann’s distraught mother clutching her missing child’s toy?

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Synonyms of distraught

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Forms of distraught

comparativemore distraught
superlativemost distraught

Origin of distraught

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.

Words formed from distraught

Words that rhyme with distraught

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Questions about distraught

What does distraught mean?
Distraught means deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
What is distraught in Hindi?
Distraught in Hindi is परेशान (pareśān). See Distraught meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is distraught?
Distraught is an adjective.
How do you pronounce distraught?
Distraught is pronounced /dɪsˈtɹɔːt/ (UK).

Words near distraught in the dictionary

  1. distranslate
  2. distranslated
  3. distranslating
  4. distranslation
  5. distranslations
  6. distraught
  7. distraughted
  8. distraughtly
  9. distraughtness
  10. distream
  11. distreamed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: distraught (page history and authors); distraught (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Distraught (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); distraught (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); distraught (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਪਰੇਸ਼ਾਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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