distraught
pronunciation
How to pronounce distraught in British English:
UK [dɪˈstrɔ:t]
How to pronounce distraught in American English:
US [dɪˈstrɔt]
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- Adjective:
- deeply agitated especially from emotion
Word Origin
- distraught
- distraught: see straight
- distraught (adj.)
- late 14c., alteration (Englishing) of earlier distract (perhaps by association with other past participle forms in -ght, such as caught, bought, brought), mid-14c., past participle of distracten "derange the intellect of, drive mad" (see distract).
Antonym
Example
- 1. When string theory fell apart , not everyone was distraught .
- 2. Now , she said , she feels distraught but stable .
- 3. These don 't look like the old-fashioned version : with few exceptions , we 're not talking about mobs of distraught depositors pounding on closed bank doors .
- 4. When you 're distraught and in pain
- 5. Mr. champion had planned to speak saturday evening but was too distraught , officials said .