RATTLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rattled mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RATTLED (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 

We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way to Leatherhead.

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

The next instant Martin's right hand had shot to a throttling clutch on his throat, and he was being shaken till his teeth rattled.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have seen old John Hawkwood, the same who has led half the Company into Italy, stand laughing in his beard as he heard it, until his plates rattled again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You must be more careful, nephew,” said my uncle, as we rattled home in his model vis-à-vis.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the days that followed that new moon, something unexpected came up that may have rattled you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Unwittingly, his hand rattled the door-latch.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Tell me,” I asked, as we rattled up Gray’s Inn Road, have you any suspicion yet as to the cause of the disappearance?

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

A brougham was waiting with a very massive driver wrapped in a dark cloak, who, the instant that I had stepped in, whipped up the horse and rattled off to Victoria Station.

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

The terrific gong was a frying-pan, hanging on the wall, that rattled and clattered with each leap of the ship.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But when he began to walk and to move about, the stones in his stomach knocked against each other and rattled.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)