FLUSTERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flustered mean? 

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

1. thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLUSTERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term)

Synonyms:

flustered; hot and bothered; perturbed; rattled

Similar:

discomposed (having your composure disturbed)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

A question about whether an individual does or did get rattled or flustered.

(Did You Get Rattled, Upset, or Flustered, NCI Thesaurus)

So flustered was she by two such grand young people asking for her lodger, that she forgot to invite them to sit down in the little parlor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nevertheless, I am in a dream, a flustered, happy, hurried dream.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Everything turned out well, which was a mercy, Hannah said, For my mind was that flustered, Mum, that it's a merrycle I didn't roast the pudding, and stuff the turkey with raisins, let alone bilin' of it in a cloth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)