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adj
Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: distressed, heartsore, pained, agonised/agonized, tormented, tortured
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Mad; insane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cracked, demented, 5150, bananas, barking, barking mad, buggish, buggy, bughouse, barmy, batchy, batpoop, bats, batty, bonkers, bread baskets, crackers, cra-cra, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, cuckoo, daffy, daft, deranged, distraught, disturbed, doolally, dotty, eccentric, fruit loops, gaga, hatstand, harebrained, insane, kooky, loon, loco, loony, loony tunes, loopy, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, moonsick, nerts, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut job, nutballs, nut, nuts, nutso, nutty, nutter, off the beam, off the chain, over the edge, potty, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, sicko, screwy, squirrelly, starkers, tonto, unbalanced, unsane, wackadoodle, weird, whackjob, whacko, whacky, wode, yampy, zany, apeshit, batcrap, batshit, bat-shit, fucked in the head, fucked up, ripshit
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
deeply agitated especially from emotion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: overwrought
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
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