distracting

Definition of distracting in English English dictionary: present participle of distract; If you say that something is distracting, you mean that it makes it difficult for you to concentrate properly on what you are doing. It's distracting to have someone watching me while I work; {s} diverting from; drawing one's attention away; disturbing the intellect; Tending or serving to distract; distractful
distract: {f} disturb, confuse, worry; divert, amuse; draw one's attention away
distract: {v} to make made, perplex, vex, divide
distract: If something distracts you or your attention from something, it takes your attention away from it. Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework Don't let yourself be distracted by fashionable theories A disturbance in the street distracted my attention. to take someone's attention away from something by making them look at or listen to something else (distractus, past participle of distrahere )
distract: To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass
distract: draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors
distract: draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors"
distract: To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin
distract: To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention
distract: Separated; drawn asunder
distract: To divert the attention of
distract: To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; most frequently used in the participle, distracted
distract: Insane; mad
distract: disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"