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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Distracted \Dis*tract"ed\, a.
     Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.
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           My distracted mind.                      --Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distracted, old p.
     p. Distraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Distracting.]
     1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
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              A city . . . distracted from itself.  --Fuller.
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     2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different
        directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the
        eye; to distract the attention.
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              Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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     3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of
        motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
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              Horror and doubt distract
              His troubled thoughts.                --Milton.
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     4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to
        madden; -- most frequently used in the participle,
        distracted.
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              A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her.
                                                    --Shak.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Distracted \Dis*tract"ed\, a.
     Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.
  
           My distracted mind.                      --Pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Distract \Dis*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distracted, old p.
     p. Distraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Distracting.]
     1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
  
              A city . . . distracted from itself.  --Fuller.
  
     2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different
        directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the
        eye; to distract the attention.
  
              Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
  
     3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of
        motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
  
              Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to
        madden; -- most frequently used in the participle,
        distracted.
  
              A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her.
                                                    --Shak.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  distracted
       adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
              [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad,
               sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
       2: having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
          [syn: distrait]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  distracted
     a.
     1 having one's attention diverted; preoccupied
     2 distraught
     vb.
     (infl of en distract  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  distracted
     a.
     1 having one's attention diverted; preoccupied
     2 distraught
     vb.
     (infl of en distract  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  distracted
     a.
     1 having one's attention diverted; preoccupied
     2 distraught
     vb.
     (infl of en distract  ed-form)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  distracted
     a.
     1 having one's attention diverted; preoccupied
     2 distraught
     vb.
     (infl of en distract  ed-form)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  distracted
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm d istract ed)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  distracted
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en distract ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb distract)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/
  صرف إنتباهه

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/ 
  объркан
  having one's attention diverted; preoccupied

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/ 
  nepozorný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/
  abgelenkt
        "She is very easily distracted."  - Sie lässt sich sehr leicht ablenken.
   see: distract sb., distracting, distracts, distractes
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/
  zerstreut, Zeit vertrieben
   see: distract, distracting
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/
  
  αναστατωμένος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/ 
  hermostunut, poissa tolaltaan
  distraught

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/
  omesti

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  distracted /dɪstɹˈaktɪd/
  1. zavart
  2. háborgó
  3. ôrült

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  distracted /dɪˈstræktɪd/ 
    rozproszony

From English-Spanish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 :   [ freedict:eng-spa ]

  distracted /distræktid/
  distraído

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/dɪˈstɹæktəd/, /dɪˈstɹæktɪd/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "distracted":
     abandoned, abashed, abroad, adrift, amok, astray, at sea,
     bellowing, berserk, bewildered, bothered, careless, carried away,
     clueless, confused, delirious, demoniac, discomposed, disconcerted,
     dismayed, disoriented, disregardant, disregardful, distrait,
     distraught, distressed, disturbed, ecstatic, embarrassed,
     enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied,
     fulminating, furious, guessing, haggard, harassed, heedless,
     hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle,
     in a scrape, in a stew, in a transport, in hysterics, inadvertent,
     inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inobservant, intoxicated,
     lost, mad, madding, maniac, mazed, negligent, off the track,
     orgasmic, orgiastic, perturbed, possessed, put-out, rabid, raging,
     rambling, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, regardless, roaring,
     running mad, storming, thoughtless, tormented, transported,
     troubled, turned around, uncontrollable, unheedful, unheeding,
     unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant,
     unobserving, unremarking, upset, violent, wandering, wild,
     wild-eyed, wild-looking, without a clue, worried
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 心烦意乱的;
  v. 分心;
  vbl. 分心;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 心烦意乱的

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