Distraught vs Obsess - What's the difference?
distraught | obsess |
Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.
To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
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, title= (label) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
To think or talk obsessively about.
As an adjective distraught
is deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.As a verb obsess is
to be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.distraught
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.
Derived terms
* distraughtly * distraughtnessSynonyms
* distressed * painedobsess
English
Verb
(es)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}