Distraught
adjective
Feeling or showing a lot of emotional distress or worry.
Peter was distraught when his dog went missing.
Often appears as...
- distraught cry
- distraught parents
adjective
Deeply upset and worried, often due to loss or disappointment.
She was too distraught to speak.
Often appears as...
- distraught over loss
- distraught with grief
adjective
Feeling or showing a lot of emotional distress or worry.
Peter was distraught when his dog went missing.
Often appears as...
- distraught cry
- distraught parents
adjective
Deeply upset and worried, often due to loss or disappointment.
She was too distraught to speak.
Often appears as...
- distraught over loss
- distraught with grief
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Describes extreme emotions, stronger than just 'worried' or 'upset'.
Becoming distraught is common when experiencing life-altering events.
Pro Tip 2/3Short-Term Reaction
Usually refers to an immediate and intense emotional reaction to a situation.
After the verdict, the defendant's family was visibly distraught.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Mild Issues
Use 'distraught' for serious problems, not trivial matters.
She was not just upset about the grade, she was distraught.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Describes extreme emotions, stronger than just 'worried' or 'upset'.
Becoming distraught is common when experiencing life-altering events.
Pro Tip 2/3Short-Term Reaction
Usually refers to an immediate and intense emotional reaction to a situation.
After the verdict, the defendant's family was visibly distraught.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Mild Issues
Use 'distraught' for serious problems, not trivial matters.
She was not just upset about the grade, she was distraught.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Describes extreme emotions, stronger than just 'worried' or 'upset'.
Becoming distraught is common when experiencing life-altering events.
Pro Tip 2/3Short-Term Reaction
Usually refers to an immediate and intense emotional reaction to a situation.
After the verdict, the defendant's family was visibly distraught.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Mild Issues
Use 'distraught' for serious problems, not trivial matters.
She was not just upset about the grade, she was distraught.
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Talithia Williams: Own...
And I'm thinking, how do you calm down? But I don't think he's having a heart attack. And so fortunately for us, this doctor was at the end of the shift. So this new doctor comes in, he sees us clearly distraught, with a husband who can't breath out of his nose.
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Boyd Varty: What I...
and that you heard the news as we all did today, and deeply distraught and know the tragic loss that it is to the world. But I just wondered if you wanted to share any additional thoughts, because we know that you heard that news
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The myth of the moon...
When the sun god heard, he was distraught. He hid inside a deer carcass until a hungry vulture came swooping down, then hopped onto its back and rode to the mountain kingdom where the moon goddess now lived with the vulture king.
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Maria Van Kerkhove: How...
I’ve felt distraught at times. But I get up every single day, and I’m inspired by the people I work with. And I feel that I have a platform, and I feel privileged to be part of this. When this began, my husband said to me --
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DIY - The Compassion...
take a look at this image a little girl broken arm do you feel compassionate towards her I bet you do now I want you to take a look at this image do you feel compassionate towards him well clearly he's distraught
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3 ways companies can...
coming back from such a devastating loss. Time, frankly, would have been better spent in figuring out how to help me instead. And then there was that moment where I had to console someone, very distraught,
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See How Life Has Changed...
Isis blew it up and my whole family was was distraught It was as if my grandfather had died again these photos give a lot of insight into
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Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...
and every single project that we set up in Africa failed. And I was distraught. I thought, age 21, that we Italians were good people
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Highway of Death PIPE...
the truck driver is shaken up but willing to help with the investigation any way he can is distraught he thinks he saw you know
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Why Are Wild Parrots...
it just makes my day to see them flying free and that's why I'm so distraught that this magnificence is going to be
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Talithia Williams: Own...
And I'm thinking, how do you calm down? But I don't think he's having a heart attack. And so fortunately for us, this doctor was at the end of the shift. So this new doctor comes in, he sees us clearly distraught, with a husband who can't breath out of his nose.
Video examples
Boyd Varty: What I...
and that you heard the news as we all did today, and deeply distraught and know the tragic loss that it is to the world. But I just wondered if you wanted to share any additional thoughts, because we know that you heard that news
Video examples
The myth of the moon...
When the sun god heard, he was distraught. He hid inside a deer carcass until a hungry vulture came swooping down, then hopped onto its back and rode to the mountain kingdom where the moon goddess now lived with the vulture king.
Video examples
Maria Van Kerkhove: How...
I’ve felt distraught at times. But I get up every single day, and I’m inspired by the people I work with. And I feel that I have a platform, and I feel privileged to be part of this. When this began, my husband said to me --
Video examples
DIY - The Compassion...
take a look at this image a little girl broken arm do you feel compassionate towards her I bet you do now I want you to take a look at this image do you feel compassionate towards him well clearly he's distraught
Video examples
3 ways companies can...
coming back from such a devastating loss. Time, frankly, would have been better spent in figuring out how to help me instead. And then there was that moment where I had to console someone, very distraught,
Video examples
See How Life Has Changed...
Isis blew it up and my whole family was was distraught It was as if my grandfather had died again these photos give a lot of insight into
Video examples
Ernesto Sirolli: Want to...
and every single project that we set up in Africa failed. And I was distraught. I thought, age 21, that we Italians were good people
Video examples
Highway of Death PIPE...
the truck driver is shaken up but willing to help with the investigation any way he can is distraught he thinks he saw you know
Video examples
Why Are Wild Parrots...
it just makes my day to see them flying free and that's why I'm so distraught that this magnificence is going to be
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Jade Jones
English Athlete
After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.
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Nicole Fosse
American Actress
I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.
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Penelope Cruz
Spanish Actress
Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?
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Cameron Britton
American Actor
If it's a 50-seat theater, I am neurotic about whether I'm doing an honest performance. Sometimes I walk away happy enough with it. You know, it can always be better, but sometimes I'll walk away distraught, feeling like I missed the pulse of the character that evening.
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Spike Milligan
Irish Comedian
You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.
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Cass McCombs
American Musician
I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.
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Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
Canadian First Lady
Even if you look at the planet, and you think it's easy to be distraught and depressed, common goodness - human goodness - is very much alive, and it needs to thrive even more amid the chaos.
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Rhianna Pratchett
English Designer
Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals.
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James Haven
American Actor
I know what it's like to feel distraught as I am an incredibly sensitive guy and feel for anything and everyone in pain, particularly my own sister.
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Nell Scovell
American Journalist
I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.
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Jade Jones
English Athlete
After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.
Quote examples
Nicole Fosse
American Actress
I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.
Quote examples
Penelope Cruz
Spanish Actress
Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again?
Quote examples
Cameron Britton
American Actor
If it's a 50-seat theater, I am neurotic about whether I'm doing an honest performance. Sometimes I walk away happy enough with it. You know, it can always be better, but sometimes I'll walk away distraught, feeling like I missed the pulse of the character that evening.
Quote examples
Spike Milligan
Irish Comedian
You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.
Quote examples
Cass McCombs
American Musician
I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.
Quote examples
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
Canadian First Lady
Even if you look at the planet, and you think it's easy to be distraught and depressed, common goodness - human goodness - is very much alive, and it needs to thrive even more amid the chaos.
Quote examples
Rhianna Pratchett
English Designer
Because I once became so distraught watching the film 'Watership Down,' my parents were happier to let me watch action adventures featuring humans and warriors rather than cute animals.
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James Haven
American Actor
I know what it's like to feel distraught as I am an incredibly sensitive guy and feel for anything and everyone in pain, particularly my own sister.
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Nell Scovell
American Journalist
I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.
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