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adjective
- 1. causing anxiety or concern; unsettling: "his whereabouts remain a perturbing mystery"
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PERTURBING definition: 1. present participle of perturb 2. to worry someone: . Learn more.
The meaning of PERTURBING is causing worry, upset, or concern : unsettling. How to use perturbing in a sentence.
to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet, unsettle; to throw into confusion : disorder; to cause to experience a perturbation… See the full definition
To perturb is to bug or bother someone by confusing them or throwing them off balance. You can try, but it's almost impossible to perturb the guards outside Buckingham Palace.
“a revelation that was most perturbing” synonyms: distressful , distressing , disturbing , troubling , worrisome , worrying heavy
(Definition of perturb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
What does the adjective perturbing mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective perturbing. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. How common is the adjective perturbing? About 0.01 occurrences per million words in modern written English. How is the adjective perturbing pronounced?
PERTURBING meaning: 1. present participle of perturb 2. to worry someone: . Learn more.
If something perturbs you, it worries you quite a lot. What perturbs me is that magazine articles are so much shorter nowadays. 2. See also perturbed. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. 1. 2. 3. Astronomy. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.
Perhaps you are more perturbed by the idea that you only live once. Not that the visitors were unduly perturbed. He played and missed at a couple but didn't look overly perturbed. He looks perturbed to say the least, his eyes running all over the place. It had already been perturbed by the side-effects in the trials.
