The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
adj. Inattentive or preoccupied, especially because of anxiety: "When she did not occupy her accustomed chair at the seminar, Freud felt uneasy and distrait” ( Times Literary Supplement).
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Abstracted; absent-minded; inattentive.
In French law, awarded to another. See distraction, 9.
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adj. having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
Word Usage
"Being, however, quite unaccustomed to dealing with this dual condition of mind it is to be feared he was a little "distrait" and mechanical of speech."