Distracted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Distracted \Dis*tract"ed\, a.
     Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.
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           My distracted mind.                      --Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  distracted
       adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
              [syn: {brainsick}, {crazy}, {demented}, {disturbed}, {mad},
               {sick}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}]
       2: having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
          [syn: {distrait}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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