disturbed
marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.
agitated or distressed; disrupted: disturbed seas; a disturbed situation.
Usually the disturbed . persons who exhibit symptoms of neurosis or psychosis.
Origin of disturbed
1Other words from disturbed
- un·dis·turbed, adjective
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How to use disturbed in a sentence
At the board meeting Tuesday, a local resident, Lois Osborn, pressed Hamercheck about the incident and said she was “very disturbed” by news reports about it.
Ohio county commissioner denies knowledge of attempted breach of local election network | Amy Gardner | November 23, 2021 | Washington PostReferring to the Marshals Service inspection, Jonathan Smith, executive director of the Washingon Lawyers’ Committee, said, “When I see the kinds of problems being described, I’m upset and disturbed but not surprised.”
D.C. jail ordered U.S. marshals to leave after surprise inspections, judge says | Spencer Hsu, Emily Davies, Paul M. Duggan | November 4, 2021 | Washington PostAfter the researchers finished raking through the leaf litter and moved on, the birds would approach and poke through the disturbed area.
You’ve heard of truffle pigs. Now get ready for truffle birds. | Kate Baggaley | October 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe more the Missouri lawmaker dug into the history of the fight, the more disturbed she felt about it as a voting rights issue.
In faraway state houses, a battle brews over making D.C. the 51st state | Meagan Flynn | February 26, 2021 | Washington PostAre you endlessly fascinated by the human condition or disturbed by it?
Her distinctive shredding can also sound very disturbed, and the more disturbed, the better.
Here, only the twisting grey concrete under his tires disturbed the desolate wild.
A Belgian Prince, Gorillas, Guerrillas & the Future of the Congo | Nina Strochlic | November 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen Druz visited Crimea before, he said, he felt disturbed by the debauched atmosphere.
disturbed by these suppositions and deciding not to tell my wife, I made the tea and took the tray to the bedroom.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death | Patricia Pearson | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI slept some hours, but was perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftShe is, however, a severe critic of her own work and is greatly disturbed by indiscriminating praise.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementBut Mary had gone home after dressing her mistress, and the fat boy came back again more disturbed than before.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensHe ruminated a little with a most disturbed expression of face, and left the room in search of Mary.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensWith both Tom and me it was friendship at first sight, and nothing until the final severance came ever disturbed its course.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
British Dictionary definitions for disturbed
/ (dɪˈstɜːbd) /
psychiatry emotionally upset, troubled, or maladjusted
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