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distract, v. 1. divert, draw away, turn aside, deflect, sidetrack, shunt; avert, switch, change course, Naut. jibe.
2. amuse, entertain, beguile, delight, gratify, interest, regale; occupy, engross, absorb, engage, abstract; relax, refresh, enliven; exhilarate, charm, inspirit, raise a smile, excite laughter, cheer, gladden, rejoice.
3. perplex, bewilder, confound, puzzle, confuse, complicate, befuddle; disconcert, discompose; dazzle, daze, mystify; annoy, harass, torment, tantalize; worry, agitate, embarrass, flurry, fluster, rattle; disturb, put out of one's head, make frantic, trouble, craze, madden, derange, disorder.
4. alienate, estrange, disaffect, make inimical, make unfriendly; disunite, divide, rend by dissension or strife; separate, part, put asunder. distracted, adj. 1. confused, perplexed, bewildered, confounded; lost, absent-minded, in a brown study, mystified; pensive, thoughtful, engrossed, preoccupied, reflecting, ruminative, deliberating; abstracted, inattentive, unheeding, heedless, unheedful, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, insensible, blind.
2. overwrought, distraught, wild, irrational, troubled, beside oneself; worked up, frantic, aflutter, frenzied, feverish, excited, phrenetic, delirious; mad, raving, deranged, insane, crazed. distraction, n. 1. confusion, befuddlement, bewilderment, puzzle, perplexity, mystification, quandary; disconcertion, discomposure, consternation; preoccupation, abstraction, absent-mindedness; mental distress, derangement, aberration, desperation, alienation; raving, hallucination, delirium, incoherence, rage, fury; madness, lunacy, craziness, insanity, mania.
2. diversion, amusement, pastime, entertainment, divertissement, beguilement; recreation, relaxation, refreshment, enlivenment; solace, comfort, consolation, restorative, easement; hobby, interest, play, sport, game; fun, delight, merriment, festivity, exhilaration, joy, jubilation; gratification, pleasure.
3. disturbance, tumult, agitation, perturbation, commotion, disorder; stir, hurly-burly, pother, stew, bustle, fuss, ado, to-do, flurry, helter-skelter; discord, dissension, contention, opposition, friction, disunity, conflict, squabble, row, feud; hullabaloo, din, rumpus, bedlam, pandemonium. distraught, adj. 1. distracted, bewildered, confused, disturbed, troubled; perturbed, agitated, upset, worked up, wrought up, Inf. in a stew; overwrought, beside oneself, at one's wit's end, frantic, aflutter, frenzied, feverish, excited, phrenetic; wild, raving, maniacal, hysterical, delirious, irrational; out of control, Inf. haywire, berserk.
2. mentally deranged, crazed, crazy, out of one's mind or head, insane, mad, demented, lunatic; unsound, Latin, non compos mentis, unbalanced, unhinged, Inf. off one's rocker, Inf. off one's trolley, Si. loco. See crazy (defs. 1,2). distress, n. 1. anguish, misery, Archaic, bale, dolor, grief, sorrow, Archaic, dole; sadness, woe, ruth, heartache, heartbreak; ache, hurt, pain, suffering; torture, torment, agony; bereavement, mourning; woefulness, wretchedness, heaviness of heart, desolation, dejection, depression, oppression; uneasiness, worry, anxiety, angst.
2. repentance, contrition, penitence, regret, remorse, compunction.
3. affliction, grievance, tribulation, trouble; annoyance, vexation, perturbation, aggravation, thorn in one's side.