distraught
/dɪˈstrɔːt
/adjective
Very worried and upset: a distraught woman sobbed and screamed for help he is terribly distraught...
- The verdict and sentence have left Rita's older sister Annette distraught and deeply upset.
- My parents were distraught and upset by the actions of this person or people.
- This is something no one dare tell a distraught woman, desperate to know whether she should be grieving or not.
Synonyms
worried, upset, distressed, fraught, devastated, shattered;
overcome, overwrought, beside oneself, out of one's mind, desperate, at one's wits' end;
hysterical, frenzied, raving, deranged
informal in a state, worked up
British informal swivel-eyed
Origin
Late Middle English: alteration of the obsolete adjective distract (from Latin distractus 'pulled apart'), influenced by straught, archaic past participle of stretch.