distracted
/dɪˈstraktɪd
/adjective
Unable to concentrate because one is preoccupied by something worrying or unpleasant: Charlotte seemed too distracted to give him much attention...
- Anna looked up, momentarily distracted by the noise her friends were making.
- Grace was too distracted by the thought of getting dirt in her brand-new white shoes.
- As you said she's easily distracted so she doesn't quite pick up on things.
Synonyms
preoccupied, diverted, inattentive, vague, absorbed, engrossed, abstracted, distrait, distant, absent, absent-minded, faraway;
bemused, confused, bewildered, perplexed, puzzled, agitated, flustered, ruffled, disconcerted, discomposed, nonplussed, befuddled, mystified;
troubled, pestered, harassed, worried, tormented
informal miles away, in a world of one's own, not with it, fazed, hassled, in a flap
Derivatives
distractedly
/ adverb ...- She returned to her room at Pembroke and distractedly toured its hamster-hutch of accessories for living/processing time.
- Katrina stubbornly refused to veer off and wimp out like all New Orleanians distractedly assumed she would.
- My wife returned to the room to find the tree on the floor, with my arm and legs visible beneath, waving distractedly.
distractedness
- The error might have resulted from a second's distractedness rather than illiteracy.
- Lizzie is relentlessly charming throughout, even as she somehow misses Gordo's obvious misery at her distractedness.
- If distractedness breeds emotional turmoil, the ability to sustain our gaze, to keep looking, can bring greater clarity and insight.
Rhymes
- worldly
- worldly goods (or possessions or wealth)
- worldly-minded
- worldly-mindedness
- worldly wisdom
- worldly-wise
- worldly wiseman
- World Meteorological Organization
- world model
- world music
- world order
- world phone
- world point
- world-political
- world politician
- world politics
- world power
- world-ranked
- world-ranking
- world-renowned
- world revolution
- worlds apart
- world's end
- worlds end
- World Series