forstraught

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adjective

Distracted.

OriginMiddle English forstraught →
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Meanings

adjectiveforstraught (comparative more forstraught, superlative most forstraught)

comparative more forstraught · superlative most forstraught

  1. obsoleterareDistracted.

    It was enough, Johanna said, to make the sely children forstraught.

    2009, My Lord John, page 37
    1 more example

    My sense, forgard, could not run away, / But were not forstraught when she did alight

    a. 1770, Thomas Chatterton, “The storie of William Canynge”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton, published 1890

Origin

  1. Middle Englishforstraught
  2. Englishforstraught

From Middle English forstraught, equivalent to for- + straught (“stretched”). Compare bestraught, distraught, etc. More at for-, straught.

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forstraught. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forstraught

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forstraught,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forstraught.

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