flurried
adjective, verb
flurried is an adjective meaning “Agitated, confused” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-R-R-I-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flurried mean?
adjective
- 1
Agitated, confused.
I met one of your dons at tea, and he said that your degree was not in the least a proof of your abilities: he said that you knocked up and got flurried in examinations.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of flurry
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flurried?
Flurried has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flurried
- more flurried comparative
- most flurried superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flurried?
Flurried appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).