flurried, flustered

flurried, flustered
These words are virtual synonyms; both mean "excited," "confused," "agitated": "Constant criticism flustered (or flurried) her." In one sense, to fluster someone is to flurry him, but fluster is a stronger term than flurry. A flurried person is upset or confused; a flustered person is agitatedly nervous or wildly disturbed: "Early during the evening he was flurried, but he became more and more flustered as the party wore on."

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  • flurried — See flurried, flustered …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • flustered — See flurried, flustered …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • flurried — flur|ried [ˈflʌrid US ˈflə:rid] adj confused and nervous or excited = ↑flustered ▪ Jack never seemed to be flurried, even when they were very busy …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • flustered — Synonyms and related words: addled, agitated, balled up, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk, bothered, chaotic, confused, crapulent, crapulous, discomposed, disconcerted, disordered, disorganized, disquieted, disturbed, dizzy, drenched, drunk …   Moby Thesaurus

  • flurried — adj upset, disturbed, flustered, unsettled, unnerved FORMAL perturbed COLLOQ. fazed, rattled, in a flap, in a tizzy, in a tizz, having kittens, all of a lather …   Useful english dictionary

  • agitated — Synonyms and related words: abashed, afflicted, all shook up, all overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, aroused, beset, bothered, bustling, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, concerned, confused, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • discomposed — Synonyms and related words: abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, agitated, amiss, askew, astray, at sea, awry, balled up, beset, bewildered, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chaotic, chapfallen, clueless, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, deranged,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • disquieted — Synonyms and related words: abashed, afflicted, affrighted, agitated, alarmed, all overish, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, beset, bothered, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, concerned, confused, consternated, daunted, discomfited,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • disturbed — Synonyms and related words: abashed, abroad, adrift, afflicted, aggravated, agitated, all overish, amiss, angry, annoyed, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, askew, astray, at sea, awry, balled up, batty, beset, bewildered, bonkers, bothered,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fidgety — Synonyms and related words: agitated, all shook up, all overish, bustling, convulsive, discomposed, disquieted, disturbed, eclamptic, excited, feverish, fidgeting, fitful, flurried, flustered, fluttering, fluttery, fretful, fussing, fussy, goosey …   Moby Thesaurus

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