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distracted
Synonyms and Antonyms of distracted
- She's been distracted about her son ever since he left on that polar expedition.
agitated, delirious, distraught, frantic, frenzied, hysterical (also hysteric)
beside oneself
- The distracted driver rear-ended the pickup truck that had stopped for the red light.
absorbed, daydreaming, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, intent, pensive, rapt
heedless, inattentive, insensible, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unheeding, unknowing, unmindful, unperceptive, unthinking, unwary, unwitting, vacant
befogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, birdbrained, clueless, confused, dazed, flighty, foggy, forgetful, forgetting, hazy, muddled, scatterbrained, unfocused (also unfocussed)
- Even after two days, he was still distracted by the jet lag.
addled, bedeviled, befogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, dazed, dizzy, dopey (also dopy), fogged, mixed-up, muddleheaded, muzzy, punch-drunk, punchy, shell-shocked, silly, stunned, stupefied
at sea, out of it
Synonym Discussion of distracted
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- walking about with an abstracted air
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- too preoccupied with her debts to enjoy the meal
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- an absent stare
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- so absentminded, he's been known to wear mismatched shoes
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- was too distracted by grief to continue working
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