perturbed

American  

[per-turbd] / pərˈtɜrbd /

adjective

1. feeling or showing great concern or mental or emotional upset.

   The heaviness of his step and the perturbed expression on his face told us that the captain was not in the best of moods.

2. greatly disordered or deranged.

   He keeps using the same nonsensical phrases and the same perturbed logic, with no sense of the context of the discussion.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of perturb.

Other Word Forms

• perturbedly adverb
• perturbedness noun
• unperturbed adjective

Etymology

Origin of perturbed

perturb + -ed ²

Example Sentences

“I can’t even believe it,” a visibly perturbed Putin said on camera.

From The Wall Street Journal

More curiously, even though U.S. high-yield spreads are at post-1998 lows, few investors seemed to be unduly perturbed here.

From MarketWatch

And he seemed, in the estimation of some around the team, unusually perturbed as public criticisms of his play started to mount.

From Los Angeles Times

His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe.

From Salon

Dubois, who has 22 wins in 24 fights as a professional, looked perturbed that his rival had stolen the limelight and walked off shaking his head.

From BBC

Related Words

• annoyed
• irritated