wrought (up)

adjective

Definition of wrought (up)next
as in perturbed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrought (up)
  1. alarmed
  2. troubled
  3. upset
  4. worried
  5. disquieted
  6. disturbed
  7. distraught
  8. distracted
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  • But city officials don’t seem alarmed, saying that the project’s size was bound to change, and that the project is still aligned with the city code.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • His long white oval scleras and perfect-circle black pupils, sometimes open and sometimes closed, are always inexplicably expressive—managing to seem happy, sad, scared, sleepy, shifty, angry, eager, alarmed, mischievous, or murderous.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
Definition of alarmed
Adjective
  • But the real anger belongs to the narrator herself, who berates herself for bringing a succession of troubled men into her son’s life.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 9 July 2026
  • There’s also room to more deeply explore Queen Gertrude (Jodi Gage)’s role in the palace intrigue and her troubled relationship with her son.
    — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
Definition of troubled
Adjective
  • Black children experience higher rates of lactose intolerance, which meant many of my kids went the entire school day without clean, safe drinking water and instead milk that gave them an upset stomach.
    — Joe Holberg, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • Many party insiders thought Larson would cruise to victory at the party’s nominating convention, but Bronin pulled a stunning upset that sent shock waves through the Connecticut political establishment.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2026
Definition of upset
Adjective
  • The 18-year-old was sent to Adelanto ICE Detention Center in handcuffs, nearly a hundred miles away from his worried family members.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Holmes is worried about old shingles and tiles in construction material that could have asbestos leaking into the water supply.
    — Mary Ella Hastings July 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2026
Definition of worried
Adjective
  • When Dodge promoted her talk on Instagram earlier this month, the post attracted nearly 1,300 comments, many of which were written by disquieted Dodge students and alumni.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
Definition of disquieted
Adjective
  • Months of the drip-drip-drip of warning signs about a perverse and violently disturbed man were not enough to convince Democratic leaders to go in a different direction in their primary.
    — Jennifer Bukowsky, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026
  • That should make Earth’s magnetic field more disturbed than usual, with mostly unsettled or active conditions and a chance of brief G1 geomagnetic storms.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of disturbed
Adjective
  • On December 2, 1717, a distraught George Augustus and Caroline packed up their household and said goodbye to their children.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026
  • Multiple people, including the distraught parents of the child and two officers who were at the hospital, had questioned whether the child was breathing after he was declared dead, according to the police report.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 7 July 2026
Definition of distraught
Adjective
  • Trump has pioneered a style of communication that exploits our distracted, disputatious age.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Investigators don’t believe that the driver was intoxicated, but distracted driving has not been ruled out as a potential cause of the accident, according to police.
    — Mary Ella Hastings July 6, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 July 2026
Definition of distracted
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