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distraughted

distraughted is the obsolete form of distracted.

Meaning of distracted

Adjective

distracted (comparative more distracted, superlative most distracted)

  1. having one's attention diverted; preoccupied; distrait (literary)
    • Plenty of accidents happened with a look-out present but momentarily distracted.2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 79
  2. distraught
    • Runs about the house like a distracted person crying and making a most hideous noise.1737, J. Bricknell, The Natural History of North Carolina, page 342

Forms of distraughted

comparativemore distraughted
superlativemost distraughted

Questions about distraughted

What is distraughted the obsolete form of?
Distraughted is the obsolete form of distracted.

Words near distraughted in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: distraughted (page history and authors); distracted (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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