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distraught

adj
/dɪsˈtɹɔːt/UK

Etymology

From Middle English distraught, blend of distract (“distracted”) and straught (“stretched, distraught”), past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”). Compare also bestraught, extraught, forstraught, etc. More at distract, stretch.

  1. inherited from distraught

Definitions

  1. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried

    Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.

    • His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.

  2. Mad

    Mad; insane.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at distraught. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01distraught02insane03insanity04madness05rash06careful07sorrowful

A definitional loop anchored at distraught. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at distraught

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA