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distracting

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

Causing a distraction; interfering with the ability to concentrate or focus.

adjective

  1. 1

    Causing a distraction; interfering with the ability to concentrate or focus.

    Sending a text message was considered to be the most distracting activity to perform while driving. From the list, the least distracting activity was having a conversation with a passenger.

    Whenever you make one aspect of a behavior more difficult (a more distracting environment), you want to make other aspects easier (walking beside the dog rather than twenty feet away).

    Please don't make a lot of loud, unnecessary noises—slamming the desk or copy machine drawer closed, etc. This is very distracting and rude.

  2. 2

    Diverting

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of distractpresent participle and gerund of distract

Forms

comparative
more distracting
superlative
most distracting
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).