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dɪˈstrɔtdis·traught

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Wiktionary4.0 / 1 vote

  1. distraughtadjective

    Synonyms:
    pained, distressed

  2. distraughtadjective

    Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.

    His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.

    Synonyms:
    pained, distressed

Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 6 votes

  1. distraught, overwroughtadjective

    deeply agitated especially from emotion

    "distraught with grief"

    Synonyms:
    overwrought

    Antonyms:
    unagitated

PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 2 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "distraught":

    frantic, panicky, upset, desperate, disgusted

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How to use distraught in a sentence?

  1. Cherelle Griner:

    I was distraught. I was hurt. I was done, fed up.

  2. Katie Wales:

    He looked at me and he said, 'You are just a distraught young lady, you are mentally unstable,' and didn't believe me and proceeded to completely ignore what I told him, and I think that's what upset me more than anything else, was the fact that he didn't believe me and it still happened to other girls after me. Nothing was done.

  3. Edward Berthelot/GC Images:

    I went out on call with a sergeant. We got a call of a man outside his house with a rifle that was distraught. We pulled up and did a U-turn past the house and came up short of the house. He told me to sit in the car, which I was gonna do. I wasn’t getting out, he got out. As he got out, another car came screaming up and two young people jumped out screaming. As it turned out, it was their grandfather. This policeman defused the entire situation by just remaining calm.

  4. Chris Christie:

    This is all going to come down to who's working the hardest at the end and who's going to make a connection, everybody from Trump on down should not feel the least bit comfortable about where they are or distraught about where they are. We've got two debates between now and then. There's a lot to do, so I feel good.

  5. Spencer Platt/Getty Images:

    Her exact words to me were, ‘you’re gonna love Dr. Cabral’s work.’ I didn’t care one way or another. I accepted my wife the way she was, everybody is distraught. She was the heart, the lifeline of the family. The heartbeat.


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