fluster

1. 1.

   be flustered; behave in a confused manner

   Broaderbehave
2. 2.

   cause to be nervous or upset

   Broaderconfuse

   Narrowerruffle

1. 1.

   a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset

   Synonymsperturbation

   Broaderdiscomposure

Other forms of fluster

plural

flusters·

past tense

flusterred·

present participle

flusterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fluster

What does fluster mean?

fluster means "be flustered; behave in a confused manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fluster?

fluster has 2 syllables: flus-ter. The stress falls on "flus". In IPA it is /ˈflʌstɚ/.

What is another word for fluster?

Close synonyms include perturbation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fluster a common word?

fluster is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.