frazzled

Meaning of frazzled

adjective
  1. showing the effects of exhaustion or strain.
    a long line of screaming children and frazzled parents
    meditation is a great way to instantly calm frazzled nerves
  2. damaged by burning or exposure to heat.
    a leave-in conditioner for repairing frazzled hair
verb, past tense
  1. cause to show the effects of exhaustion or strain.
    Richard was frequently frazzled by the conflicting demands of work and home
    trying to do too much in too little time could frazzle everyone's nerves and ruin your vacation
  2. damage or cause to shrivel by burning or exposure to heat.
    families whose homes overlook a field that was frazzled by the fire feared that the flames would reach their houses
    I frazzled my fair skin almost to obliteration

early 19th century: perhaps a blend of fray1 and obsolete fazle ‘ravel out’, of Germanic origin. The word was originally East Anglian dialect, with the meaning ‘tear or unravel’; it came into standard British English via the US.

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Hyphenation of frazzled

fraz-zled

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • frazzled is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with frazzled

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