distraught
adjective
[ dɪˈstrɔːt ]
• very worried and upset.
• "distraught parents looking for a runaway teenager"
Similar:
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,
in a state,
worked up,
swivel-eyed,
verklempt,
Origin:
late Middle English: alteration of the obsolete adjective distract (from Latin distractus ‘pulled apart’), influenced by straught, archaic past participle of stretch.
