distracted

4 definitions found

distracted - 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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  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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distracted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  distracted
      adj 1: having the attention diverted especially because of
             anxiety [syn: distracted, distrait]

distracted - 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