rattledadj.
/ˈratld/, U.S. /ˈræd(ə)ld/ 1. That is rattled or shaken.
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1866 R. Leighton Poems 132 The kneeling crowd, rapt bosoms, eyes ecstatic; The rattled beads, the prayers.
1907 R. Shackleton & E. Shackleton Quest of Colonial iii. 52 We heard the rattled chain.
1958 A. Sillitoe Loneliness Long Distance Runner 115 Angrily rattled bedroom windows.
1974 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 103 The hills are coming around us like calves To a rattled milk bucket.
2007 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 15 June 11 That any ex soldier is forced to depend on a rattled can in November should turn our faces redder than a Flanders poppy.
2. Originally U.S. Flustered, agitated; disconcerted; alarmed. Also in rattled-sounding adj. Cf. rattle v.1 8.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adjective]
reigheOE
drofc1000
druvyOE
restlessOE
worya1225
forstraughtc1386
unquertc1390
unsaughtc1390
ill (evil) at easea1400
unrofula1400
unquietc1400
unrestya1413
unquieted?a1425
unrestful?c1425
unpeaceda1475
out of quieta1500
inquiet?1504
uneasya1513
perturbed1538
unquietous?1545
disquieted?1548
astraught1564
astraughted1565
agitate1567
turmoiled1570
disquiet1587
distroubled1590
weltered1590
disturbed1593
twitcheda1594
troublesome1596
stract1598
uncomposed1601
discomposed1603
incomposed1608
uncouth1660
unserene1664
chagrin1665
agitated1684
perturbated1704
disordered1711
perturbate1741
chagrineda1754
nervish1760
uncomfortable1796
funked1831
untranquillized1831
streaked1833
striped1839
discomfortable1844
streaky1848
bothered1851
funked out1859
bebothered1866
disorderly1871
fantod1883
rattled1885
aflap1887
shook1891
dicked-up1967
torqued1967
weirded out1973
the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adjective] > uneasy > rattled
streaked1833
striped1839
streaky1848
rattled1885
1885 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 25 May In its rattled state of mind, it has unwittingly blundered in its vain attempt to ward off the damaging effect of the facts which are enlightening the people through the columns of the Advocate.
1897 J. M. Lippmann Fool & His Money ii. 20 I'm in the greatest sort of a rush... She doesn't seem to be filling her part of the contract, and I have an engagement after I leave here. That's why I'm so rattled.
1910 N.Y. Evening Post 10 Feb. 8/1 The plight of Ohio's rattled Republicans is enough to win grimy tears from the stony basilisk.
1978 W. M. Spackman Armful of Warm Girl 62 It had seemed to her that he, rather, had been rattled-sounding.
1983 P. Marshall Praisesong for Widow I. v. 72 She was so rattled and outdone, she failed to register that the man had spoken in English.
1992 New Republic 3 Aug. 7/2 America is a bummed-out country, a nation of rattled faith.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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