DISTURBED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disturbed mean?
• DISTURBED (adjective)
The adjective DISTURBED has 4 senses:
1. having the place or position changed
2. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
3. emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
4. affected with madness or insanity
Familiarity information: DISTURBED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• DISTURBED (adjective)
Meaning:
Having the place or position changed
Context examples:
the disturbed books and papers on her desk / disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed
Similar:
disarranged (having the arrangement disturbed; not in order)
Meaning:
Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
Synonyms:
disquieted; upset; worried; disturbed; distressed
Context examples:
too upset to say anything / spent many disquieted moments / distressed about her son's leaving home / lapsed into disturbed sleep / worried parents / a worried frown / one last worried check of the sleeping children
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
Meaning:
Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
Synonyms:
maladjusted; disturbed
Similar:
neurotic; psychoneurotic (affected with emotional disorder)
Meaning:
Affected with madness or insanity
Synonyms:
brainsick; crazy; demented; distracted; unhinged; unbalanced; mad; sick; disturbed
Context example:
a man who had gone mad
Similar:
insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)
