Word Meanings - DISTRACTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTRACTED)

• Abroad
• Far
• away
• apart
• dispersed
• aloof
• adrift
• about
• distracted
• confused
• drift
• Loose
• afloat
• agog
• abroad
• abroach
• disordered
• Afloat
• Adrift
• at sea
• loose
• dazed
• Frantic
• Mad
• raving
• furious
• wild
• frenzied
• maniacal
• Insane
• demented
• lunatic
• infuriated
• crazy
• frantic
• rabid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISTRACTED)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to DISTRACTED)

• RAVENER
  1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• DISPERSION
  The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities. Dispersion of the optic axes , the separation of the optic axes in biaxial crystals, due to the fact that the axial angle has different values
• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• FRENZICAL
  Frantic. Orrery.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• RAVEN
  A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus,
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• RAVENING
  Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.
• DAZZLEMENT
  Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• RABIDLY
  In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• DEMENTED
  Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• MORAVIAN
  Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
  The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• BEDAZZLE
  To dazzle or make dim by a strong light. "Bedazzled with the sun." Shak.
• AGGRAVATING
  1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• DRAVIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.
• GRAVIDITY
  The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.