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Troubled vs Distraught - What's the difference?

troubled | distraught |

As adjectives the difference between troubled and distraught

is that troubled is anxious, worried, careworn while distraught is deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.

As a verb troubled

is (trouble).

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)

    • distraught

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.
    • His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.

    Derived terms

    * distraughtly * distraughtness

    Synonyms

    * distressed * pained