Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being perturbed, agitated, or disquieted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Liable to be
perturbed oragitated .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rigel and Betelgeuse and Algol rush through space, and about them probably circle numerous planets inhabited by countless and curious beings, each and all, perhaps, possessing hearts as perturbable as our own.
Hints for Lovers 1899
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Mr. BALDWIN is the least perturbable of Ministers.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920 Various 1898
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To depart without the ceremony of saying good-bye takes its name from the most elaborately civil of people -- French leave; while the least perturbable of nations has been made to contribute an epithet, Dutch, to the courage derived from the whiskey-bottle.
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Steve Jobs is notoriously perturbable in regards to fan noise, which means the fans on Macs, when present, kick in a lot less often than on their PC counterparts.
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Steve Jobs is notoriously perturbable in regards to fan noise, which means the fans on Macs, when present, kick in a lot less often than on their PC counterparts.
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