DISTRAIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distrait mean? 

• DISTRAIT (adjective)
  The adjective DISTRAIT has 1 sense:

1. having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety

  Familiarity information: DISTRAIT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTRAIT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety

Synonyms:

distracted; distrait

Similar:

inattentive (showing a lack of attention or care)

 Context examples 

I noticed that after my host had read it he seemed even more distrait and strange than before.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And would rather sit distrait by her oriel than ride gayly to the chase as of old.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may remember that I was distrait, and remained sitting after you had all alighted.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes was curiously distrait, and we walked up and down the garden path for some time in silence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The three rode abreast, Alleyne Edricson with his eyes cast down and his mind distrait, for his thoughts were busy with the conversation which he had had with Sir Nigel in the morning.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Nigel sat silent and distrait at his meal, while Alleyne hearkened to the clattering tongue of the Gascon, and to his talk of the glories of his own estate, his successes in love, and his triumphs in war.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had asked Sir Oliver Buttesthorn to do my humble board the honor to partake at it of the dainty upon which we take some little pride, but in sooth this alarm of pirates hath cast such a shadow on my wits that I am like one distrait.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)