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[syn: distracted, distrait]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Distracted \Dis*tract"ed\, a.
Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.
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My distracted mind. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distracted, old p.
p. Distraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Distracting.]
1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
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A city . . . distracted from itself. --Fuller.
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2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different
directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the
eye; to distract the attention.
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Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination.
--Goldsmith.
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3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of
motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
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Horror and doubt distract
His troubled thoughts. --Milton.
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4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to
madden; -- most frequently used in the participle,
distracted.
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A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her.
--Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
distracted
adj 1: having the attention diverted especially because of
anxiety [syn: distracted, distrait]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "distracted":
abandoned, abashed, abroad, adrift, amok, astray, at sea,
bellowing, berserk, bewildered, bothered, careless, carried away,
clueless, confused, delirious, demoniac, discomposed, disconcerted,
dismayed, disoriented, disregardant, disregardful, distrait,
distraught, distressed, disturbed, ecstatic, embarrassed,
enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied,
fulminating, furious, guessing, haggard, harassed, heedless,
hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle,
in a scrape, in a stew, in a transport, in hysterics, inadvertent,
inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inobservant, intoxicated,
lost, mad, madding, maniac, mazed, negligent, off the track,
orgasmic, orgiastic, perturbed, possessed, put-out, rabid, raging,
rambling, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, regardless, roaring,
running mad, storming, thoughtless, tormented, transported,
troubled, turned around, uncontrollable, unheedful, unheeding,
unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant,
unobserving, unremarking, upset, violent, wandering, wild,
wild-eyed, wild-looking, without a clue, worried