other words for distrait
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It was on the tip of her tongue to ask him the reason for his distrait manner when her thoughts were diverted by his next remark.
But even our laughter that evening was distrait, or seemed to me so, as if shadowed by something sad.
Mr. Magee sought to talk to Miss Norton, but found her nervous and distrait.
She rose a moment later, and stood, distrait, looking out across the sunlit world.
An agreeable soul herself, she noted that her tutor's manner this afternoon was taciturn and distrait.
John took the distrait look for dreamy thought; her irresponsiveness for ethereal purity; her moodiness for superiority of soul.
As it happened, she only found him distrait, and that interested her.
Will was dull and distrait, and he hardly looked at me once, and talked about sensible impersonal things the whole time.
Monmouth paced up and down with his hand to his forehead like one distrait.
In the end he did prepare breakfast though in a distrait fashion; indeed I found him beginning to make tea in the frying-pan.
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WORDS RELATED TO DISTRAIT
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- daydreaming
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- surroundings
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
- addled
- agitated
- anxious
- beside oneself
- bothered
- concerned
- confused
- crazed
- crazy
- distracted
- distrait
- distressed
- flustered
- frantic
- harassed
- hysterical
- in a panic
- like a chicken with its head cut off
- mad
- muddled
- nonplussed
- nuts
- overwrought
- perturbed
- rattled
- raving
- shook up
- thrown
- tormented
- troubled
- unglued
- unscrewed
- wild
- worried
- afflicted
- agitated
- all torn up
- antsy
- anxious
- basket case
- bothered
- bugged
- bummed out
- bundle of nerves
- concerned
- cut up
- discombobulated
- disconsolate
- distracted
- distrait
- distraught
- dragged
- exercised
- fidgety
- harassed
- hyper
- in a stew
- in a tizzy
- inconsolable
- jittery
- jumpy
- miffed
- peeved
- perturbed
- ripped
- saddened
- shaky
- shook
- shook up
- shot down
- spooked
- strung out
- tormented
- troubled
- unconsolable
- unglued
- up the wall
- uptight
- wired
- worried
- wrecked
- wretched
- absent
- absentminded
- apathetic
- blind
- bored
- careless
- distracted
- distrait
- distraught
- diverted
- dreamy
- faraway
- heedless
- inadvertent
- indifferent
- inobservant
- listless
- lost
- musing
- neglectful
- oblivious
- off-guard
- out to lunch
- preoccupied
- rapt
- regardless
- remiss
- removed
- scatterbrained
- thoughtless
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unobserving
- unperceiving
- unthinking
- unwatchful
- vague