Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Showing signs or symptoms of mental or emotional illness: crimes that could only be committed by a disturbed person.
Wiktionary
- adj. Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
- adj. Extremely surprised; shocked.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of disturb.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affected with madness or insanity
- adj. emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
- adj. having the place or position changed
- adj. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
Examples
“Cooper, I would not object to your use of the term disturbed psyche in connection with the sensibility profiled here.”
“The label disturbed her so much for a while that she vowed to abandon her new style of investigative reporting.”
“The anxious call of his name disturbed his concentration.”
“Angelica, while obviuosly mentally disturbed, is right!”
“John R. the escalation of behaviors in disturbed individuals is observed so frequently by mental health professionals that it is always a factor to be considered in evaluations of individuals with problematic behaviors.”
“I kinda just shut the door on him and ate my food in disturbed silence.”
“So your roommate won't be disturbed, is that it?”
“If you read the comments, it shows that there are quite a few people who are disturbed from the censorship taking place.”
“His expression disturbed her; she had never seen him look at her so coldly.”
“That Bakr knew his name disturbed him not as it was the nature of this man and his patrons to trade in knowledge.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘disturbed’.
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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Expressions
(Facial)
pained, pitiful, reproachful, annoyed, dismissive, excited, eager, spiteful, contemptuous, passive, calm, nervous and 155 more...
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The Unique
egoist, individualist, loner, hateful, asocial, inactive, anarchist, misanthrope, fascist, disturbed, bored, isolationist and 111 more...
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Words Words and more Words
ruckus, bustle, ominous, odious, abominable, atrocious, appal, abysmal, dismal, calamity, debacle, fiasco and 231 more...
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Mad as a March hare
Words to describe the mad, the insane, the... well, me.
unhinged, unglued, mental, fruitcake, lunatic, nutter, potty, dippy, kooky, batty, daft, cuckoo and 20 more...
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loonie
Inspired by Peter Reading's "Euphemisms".
crackers, potty, loony, bonkers, nutty, screwy, ga-ga, dull, strange, do-lally, dopey, silly and 83 more...
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kathquadmum's list
flabbergasted, gobsmacked, perturbed, dumbfounded, astonished, amazed, astounded, bewildered, confused, stunned, upset, at a loss and 13 more...
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Music critics vocabulary and phrase
Words and phrase used to describe the sound of music and composers' and musicians' technique and style.
musical Marmite, irresistible perfume, beguiling pastora..., ambience, vibrant, atmospheric, bold modulations, orchestral palette, woodwind filigree, intriguing, inventive, lollipop and 14 more...
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