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- Dictionaryperturbed/pəˈtəːbd/
adjective
- 1. feeling anxiety or concern; unsettled: "she didn't seem perturbed about the noises around her"
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adjective. formal uk / pəˈtɜːbd / us / pɚˈtɝːbd / Add to word list. worried: He didn't seem unduly / overly perturbed by the news. Synonym. flustered. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. worried I'm worried that he's not going to graduate. concerned Aren't you concerned that she might tell someone?
: troubled in mind : feeling or showing agitation : bothered, upset. Never in his life had he been so perturbed, so horribly anxious. Frank Norris. The next 40 minutes were spent in a slow, long-distance waltz with the bear. He had spotted us, of course, and he climbed another 10 feet up the hill.
PERTURB | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of perturb in English. perturb. verb [ T ] formal uk / pəˈtɜːb / us / pɚˈtɝːb / Add to word list. to worry someone: News of the arrest perturbed her greatly. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing anxiety and worry. alarmingly. bite. catch up with someone.
Perturbed definition: feeling or showing great concern or mental or emotional upset. See examples of PERTURBED used in a sentence.
1. : to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet, unsettle. Half way down the next flight, she smiled to think that a char-woman's stare should so perturb her. Edith Wharton. The crowd didn't seem to perturb them in the slightest … Nick Hornby. 2. : to throw into confusion : disorder. perturbing the social order. 3.
Perturbed means flustered and confused. When you're perturbed, you're upset by something, and rattled enough by it to be thrown off your usual calmness into a state of confusion. In astronomy, perturbation is defined as "the effects on a large body when it is subjected to gravitational effects from more than one other large body." When a planet ...
1. To disturb or confuse; make uneasy or anxious: I was perturbed by his off-color remarks. 2. a. To cause (a system) to become altered or imbalanced from a normal state: volcanic eruptions that perturbed the climate. b. Physics & Astronomy To cause perturbation in (the orbit of a celestial body, for example) by gravitational interaction.
Definition of perturb verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definition of perturbed adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE, ADJECTIVE that] If someone is perturbed by something, they are worried by it. [formal] He apparently was not perturbed by the prospect of a police officer coming to call. [+ by/at] She was really quite perturbed at the prospect.
