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Definition of Distraught
1. Adjective. Deeply agitated especially from emotion. "Distraught with grief"
Definition of Distraught
1. p. p. & a. Torn asunder; separated.
Definition of Distraught
1. Adjective. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Distraught
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distraught
Literary usage of Distraught
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... enters distraught and takes tragic paces down stage; stoops down and listens
for a heart throb. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Pierced in the back and dash'd from off his seat By the sharp spear; the steeds
were left distraught. As, when a wondrous conflagration wastes The deep ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Nor be our minds with constant ills distraught, WILLIAM HAY. Jove, the loud
thunderer, hath the end of all Determined, when and how it shall befall. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"The soaring eagle high upon the wing, Bearing aloft a mother's only prize, When
suddenly brought down from her career, By the sure shaft of the distraught ..."
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