Definition of Flustered

1. Adjective. Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term).

Exact synonyms: Hot And Bothered, Perturbed, Rattled
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Discomposed

Definition of Flustered

1. Adjective. Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion. ¹

2. Verb. (past of fluster) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flustered

1. fluster [v] - See also: fluster

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flustered

flushiest
flushing
flushingly
flushings
flushless toilet
flushness
flushnesses
flushometer
flushometers
flusht
flushy
fluspirilene
fluster
flusteration
flusterations
flustered (current term)
flusteredly
flustering
flusters
flustery
flustramine
flustrated
flustration
flutamide
flutamide miki wu
flute
flute instability
flute player
fluted

Literary usage of Flustered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"flustered. A TALL, green-looking youth stepped into a village grocery where they keep something to drink aa well as to eat, and after peering about a little ..."

2. Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases, as Used in by B. Kirkby (1898)
"flustered—Broken out. T' barn heed 's o' flustered oot wi' gurt scabs. ... flustered—Confused. Ah gat fairly flustered amang. ..."

3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1908)
"she zes, looken quite flustered. " ' I didn' ought to tell nobody,' zes I, ... She stood up, but she was so flustered, and I could zee her ..."

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