Synonyms for distraught
dɪˈstrɔtdis·traught

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1. distraughtadjective

   Synonyms:
   pained, distressed

2. distraughtadjective

   Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.

   His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.

   Synonyms:
   pained, distressed

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:2.5 / 6 votes

1. distraught, overwroughtadjective

   deeply agitated especially from emotion

   "distraught with grief"

   Synonyms:
   overwrought

   Antonyms:
   unagitated

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1. List of paraphrases for "distraught":

   frantic, panicky, upset, desperate, disgusted

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1. Reedley Police Chief Joe Garza:

   Very distraught, i think he is still in shock.

2. Kevin Sullivan:

   He was in a house where someone died and he’s completely distraught because of it.

3. John Frey:

   She talked to me about angels, and then about the hitchhiker, it wasn’t really like her to pick up hitchhikers, so I knew she was disoriented, and very much in grief, she was very upset and distraught about [the death].

4. Katie Wales:

   He looked at me and he said, 'You are just a distraught young lady, you are mentally unstable,' and didn't believe me and proceeded to completely ignore what I told him, and I think that's what upset me more than anything else, was the fact that he didn't believe me and it still happened to other girls after me. Nothing was done.

5. Cherelle Griner:

   I was distraught. I was hurt. I was done, fed up, i'm pretty sure I texted BG's agent and was like, ‘I don't want to talk to anybody. It's going to take me a minute to get my emotions together, and just tell everybody I'm unavailable right now.' Because it just knocked me out. I wasn't well, I'm still not well.