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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, distrait, distraught, frantic, frenzied, hysterical (also hysteric)
- 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)
- she's been chronically depressed and distracted since her husband's death
addle, addled, addlepated, bedeviled, befogged, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, bushed [chiefly Australian], confounded, confused, dazed, dizzy, dopey (also dopy), fogged, mixed-up, muddleheaded, muzzy, pixilated (also pixillated), punch-drunk, punchy, raddled, shell-shocked, silly, slaphappy, spaced-out (or spaced), spacey (also spacy), stunned, stupefied, zonked, zonked-out
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
Synonyms and Antonyms of distracted
- we were distracted from our discussion by the noise outside
concentrated, focused (also focussed)
- distracted by the looming tax deadline
agitated, ailed, alarmed (also alarumed), bothered, concerned, derailed, discomforted, discomposed, dismayed, disquieted, distempered, distressed, disturbed, exercised, flurried, frazzled, freaked (out), fussed, hagrode, perturbed, undid, unhinged, unsettled, upset, weirded out, worried
aggravated, angered, annoyed, bugged, chafed, chivied (or chivvied), exasperated, fretted, galled, got, grated, harassed, harried, irked, irritated, nettled, peeved, pestered, piqued, put off, put out, riled, vexed (also vext)
abashed, confounded, confused, discomfited, disconcerted, discountenanced, embarrassed, fazed, flustered, jarred, mortified, nonplussed (also nonplused), rattled, shook up
daunted, demoralized, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, unnerved
calmed, composed, quieted, settled, soothed, tranquilized (also tranquillized)
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