distracted

distraído

Que no puede prestar toda su atención porque piensa en otra cosa o algo más le llama la atención.

En inglés sencillo: Unable to pay full attention because you are thinking about or noticing something else.

• You seem distracted today.
• He was too distracted to finish his homework.
• Drivers distracted by their phones can cause accidents.

Cómo se usa: be distracted by something (I was distracted by a noise outside.)

Sinónimos: preoccupied, inattentive, absent-minded

Antónimos: attentive, focused

Expresiones frecuentes: easily distracted, distracted by something, distracted driver, look distracted

desesperado, angustiado

Tan preocupado o alterado que no puede pensar con claridad ni actuar con calma.

En inglés sencillo: So worried or upset that you cannot think clearly or behave calmly.

• The distracted mother searched everywhere.
• He was distracted with grief after her death.
• Distracted with worry, she could neither eat nor sleep.

Cómo se usa: distracted with something (She was distracted with fear for her missing child.)

Sinónimos: distraught, frantic

Antónimos: calm

Expresiones frecuentes: distracted with grief, distracted with worry, distracted mother