Word Meanings - DISTRACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Separated; drawn asunder. 2. Insane; mad. Drayton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTRACT)

• Embroil
• Implicate
• commingle
• disturb
• distract
• trouble

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISTRACT)

• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to DISTRACT)

• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• REFRESHMENT
  1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• RELIEVEMENT
  The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
• DISTRACTFUL
  Distracting. Heywood.
• EMBROILMENT
  The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.
• COMMINGLER
  One that commingles; specif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles.
• DISTRACTIOUS
  Distractive.
• DISTRACTEDNESS
  A state of being distracted; distraction. Bp. Hall.
• PLEASE
  1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions. What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more. Milton. For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson. 2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• UNIMPLICATE
  Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• OVERDELIGHTED
  Delighted beyond measure.