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perturbing::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | distressful, distressing, disturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
a revelation that was most perturbing.
Examples of perturbing
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The seductive vulgarity of authoritarian power is at once puckish and perturbing.
From the latimes.com
It interacts with the inner planet, perturbing it and shaking up the system.
From the sciencedaily.com
Even more perturbing is that at some point one of these games will go wrong.
From the economist.com
I hugely admired the attempt and found the experience genuinely perturbing.
From the metro.co.uk
Just as perturbing, perhaps, is another kind of woman in the Munro canon.
From the theatlantic.com
Even more perturbing, only 23.6% of professors and 27.6% of senior lecturers are women.
From the thebeaveronline.co.uk
Secretary COLIN POWELL is telegenic, unflappable and good at perturbing authority figures.
From the time.com
True or not, the fact that such a perception could exist is perturbing.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Then he identifies the perturbing acceleration on the Moon as the difference of this from SQ.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- Disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
- Cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
- Throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"
- (perturbed) flustered: thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
- (perturbing) distressing: causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome ...
- To disturb; to bother or unsettle; To slightly modify the motion of an object; To modify the motion of a body by exerting a gravitational force; To modify slightly, such as an equation or value
- (perturbed) Disturbed; flustered
- (perturbed) made uneasy or troubled
