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adjective

Definition of freaked-outnext
as in distraught

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freaked (out)

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verb

past tense of freak (out)
1
as in alarmed
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy don't talk about death, as it totally freaks me out

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2
as in melted down
to yield to mental or emotional stress the landlady totally freaked out when she saw the dead body in the hall

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for freaked-out
  1. distraught
  2. freaked
  3. disturbed
  4. aggrieved
  5. troubled
  6. bothered
  7. worried
  8. distracted
Adjective
  • The defendant appeared to be distraught after the verdicts were read on Thursday.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Additionally, Jimmy was then able to forgive and come to the aid of a distraught Louis (Brett Goldstein), the man responsible for that death.
    Jim Halterman, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of distraught
Adjective
  • Three weeks ago, an extremely freaked out Judge Alice Dockery (Tricia Alexandro) found something presumably very wrong in a file and called Detective Fleming (Miles Mussenden) to come to her office immediately.
    Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In other words: a dystopian capsule wardrobe of freaked basics.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2022
Definition of freaked
Verb
  • The mineral can stay airborne for days once disturbed, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.
    Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The relationship quickly unearthed something that disturbed him.
    Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of disturbed
Adjective
  • The first episode quickly jumps three years ahead as the aggrieved man pays people to search subway stations for the mysterious recruiter who once invited him to the games.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Despite his aggrieved martyr act, in truth, the last thing Donald Trump wants is to relitigate the Jan. 6 insurrection for a very simple reason—exposure.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of aggrieved
Adjective
  • Country singer Elle King is opening up about her troubled relationship with father, Rob Schneider.
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The previous year Atlanta’s troubled son Young Thug was shut behind bars on RICO charges, bringing his output to a halt.
    Maurice Garland, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of troubled
Verb
  • With the exception of the Russell 2000, which gained 1%, none of the major indices bothered to get out of bed the day after Christmas.
    JJ Kinahan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The technology behind an LLM is sufficiently advanced because the people using it have not bothered to understand it.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of bothered
Adjective
  • Many refugees in Europe are worried about their status after the fall of the al-Assad government.
    New York Times, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
  • By 1972, then President-Nixon’s people were worried about the prospect of segregationist former Alabama governor George Wallace drawing votes from Nixon as the potential nominee of the AIP, the right-wing American Independent Party.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of worried
Verb
  • Slot said Alexander-Arnold was not distracted by fluttering eyes in Spain but the right-back looked like a man with his mind elsewhere.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, some basic realities are that Russia is distracted by the war Ukraine, and is not of much help to Iran's regional military strategy.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of distracted
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