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Definition of Flustered
1. Adjective. Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term).
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Discomposed
Definition of Flustered
1. Adjective. Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion. ¹
2. Verb. (past of fluster) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flustered
1. fluster [v] - See also: fluster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flustered
Literary usage of Flustered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"flustered. A TALL, green-looking youth stepped into a village grocery where they
keep something to drink aa well as to eat, and after peering about a little ..."
2. Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases, as Used in by B. Kirkby (1898)
"flustered—Broken out. T' barn heed 's o' flustered oot wi' gurt scabs. ...
flustered—Confused. Ah gat fairly flustered amang. ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1908)
"she zes, looken quite flustered. " ' I didn' ought to tell nobody,' zes I, ...
She stood up, but she was so flustered, and I could zee her ..."
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