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distraught

Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɹɔːt/

The English word “distraught” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
  2. Mad; insane.

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.

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