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Distracted vs Troubled - What's the difference?

distracted | troubled | Related terms |

Distracted is a related term of troubled.


As verbs the difference between distracted and troubled

is that distracted is (distract) while troubled is (trouble).

As adjectives the difference between distracted and troubled

is that distracted is having one's attention diverted; preoccupied while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.

distracted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distract)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having one's attention diverted; preoccupied
  • distraught

    • troubled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)