Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. hard to deal with; causing uncertainty or confusion about how to act or react.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing an emotional disturbance
Examples
“Brad: “What I find disconcerting is that we actually ran a $900,000 trade deficit with Canada in live turkeys in the first half of this year!””
The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“What's disconcerting is how he, like I've heard from Terry O'Quinn in LOST interviews, has given up on completely delving into and investing in their character's inner-workings and resigned to being a 'puppet' for the writers and directors.”
“What's perhaps more disconcerting is that fact that the parents of those children let them stay for sleepovers at Jackson's * shudder* Yes, whole scenario is simply evil.”
“I think yankeesue was referring to HSI because I went to their site, too, and found no staff listing, and even more disconcerting is that when I hit “contact us”, I got the following error message:”
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“More disconcerting is that many southern Repubs with Klan roots cannot stomach a black man as President.”
“What's most disconcerting is that these men are lying to themselves -- not about their complicity, but about their ostensible anti-communism.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
“They have been finding them in disconcerting abundance.”
“What's most disconcerting is that you don't consider AA's actual PEOPLE.”
“What makes this novel both so brave and so disconcerting is the transfer of the primordial and the visceral into an otherwise clear-cut adult landscape, but what exactly might be done about this subterranean realm of experience remains enigmatic; this is a book interested in the clash of fierce forces, not in their serene synthesis or their harmonious resolution.”
“More disconcerting is that their pitching is ninth in the league, nearly a run a game worse than last season, when the Oakland staff was second in the AL.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘disconcerting’.
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL D
dais, dalliance, dank, daunt, daunting, dawdled, dearth, debacle, debase, debauchery, debilitate, debonair and 141 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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D's Words
If you could "tag" people....
allemande, bebop, excessive, assiduous, bailiwick, bandana, befuddle, busker, disconcerting, clothespin, cogitate, cultivar and 55 more...
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to-use
lapidary, sacrosanct, stupendous, armophous, rah-rah, petty, consternation, meandering, cherry pick, garish, vacuous, agitated and 66 more...
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GRE Words
placid, feign, condolence, superfluous, bereave, forbear, decorous, comport, surreptitious, spurious, laconic, ingenuous and 31 more...
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Words from The Brothers Karamazov
Vocabulary words.
sententiously, mutton, eunuch, anathema, casuistry, imperturbably, forerunner, birch, torpor, precipice, bravado, insolent and 74 more...
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favourite words from grade 8
so digging through my old stuff I found this list titled Hippopotomonstrosensquippedaliaphilia.
some of these words now seem embarassingly everyday, but I remember how excited I was, hearing ...exploit, bereft, purloin, usurp, sombre, derelict, quiescence, vestiges, nostalgia, lustrous, obstinate, enigma and 36 more...
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Common but Humorous Adjectives
They're not exotic, they just sound funny in conversation. Example: "a 'disturbing' amount of toilet paper." ...or maybe it's just my stupid sense of humor.
unseemly, curious, disturbing, ungainly, disconcerting, heinous, scathing, ridiculous, classy
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New Words
portend, disconcerting, transcend, emphatic, furtive, surreal, surrealism, redact
Tweets
Looking for tweets for disconcerting.
GHibbs My adjectival use: 'The attack by the dog was a disconcerting experience.' Aug 22, 2011
bilby Disconcertinaizbrokened. Nov 26, 2010
PossibleUnderscore Is the 'ce' pronounced as 's' or 'ch'? Jul 22, 2009
mager It is disconcerting that Joel is trying to rap to the bartender at Nova in San Francisco right now. Feb 6, 2008