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| Main Entry: | disturbing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disquieting |
| Synonyms: | alarming, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, consequential, creepy, depressing, difficult, disagreeable, discouraging, distressing, embarrassing, foreboding, frightening, gloomy, hard, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, laborious, ominous, onerous, painful, perplexing, pessimistic, prophetic, provoking, severe, sinister, startling, threatening, tiresome, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uncertain, unpleasant, wearisome, worrisome, worrying, aggravating, agitating, discomforting, discommoding, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, harassing, impeding, perturbing, troubling, unsettling, upsetting, vexing |
| Main Entry: | disturb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, upset |
| Synonyms: | afflict, agitate, ail, alarm, amaze, annoy, arouse, astound, badger, complicate, confound, confuse, depress, discompose, dishearten, disrupt, distract, distress, excite, fluster, frighten, gall, grieve, harass, interfere, interrupt, intrude, irk, irritate, molest, muddle, outrage, pain, perplex, perturb, pester, pique, plague, provoke, puzzle, rattle, rouse, ruffle, shake, shake up*, startle, tire, trouble, unhinge*, unnerve, unsettle, vex, worry, burn up*, make uneasy |
| Notes: | disturb is based on Latin turba 'tumult' and disturb applies better to physical agitation and perturb to mental agitation |
| Antonyms: | appease, calm, comfort, pacify, quiet, reassure, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disturb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disorder; dislocate |
| Synonyms: | confuse, derange, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disorganize, displace, distort, foul up*, interfere, jumble, mess up, mix up, move, muddle, remove, replace, shift, tamper, unsettle, upset, louse up |
| Antonyms: | arrange, locate, order, organize, sort |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | agonizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult and painful, suffering |
| Synonyms: | disturbing, excruciating, extreme, fierce, harrowing, intense, tortuous, vehement, violent, racking, struggling, tearing, tormenting, torturing |
| Main Entry: | bothersome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troubling |
| Synonyms: | annoying, distressing, disturbing, inconvenient, irritating, remote, tiresome, troublesome, vexatious, aggravating, exasperating, incommodious, rebarbative, vexing |
| Antonyms: | convenient, helpful, untroubling |
| Main Entry: | burdensome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
| Synonyms: | demanding, difficult, disturbing, exacting, exigent, heavy*, irksome, onerous, oppressive, taxing, tough, trying, wearing, weighty, carking, crushing, superincumbent, wearying |
| Antonyms: | helpful, helping, aiding, relieving, unburdensome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creepy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, scary |
| Synonyms: | awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird, itching, shuddersome |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, normal, pleasant, pleasing, unscary |
| Main Entry: | detrimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damaging, disadvantageous |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, deleterious, destructive, disturbing, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, mischievous, negative, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, unfavorable |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful, profitable |
| Main Entry: | disquieting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upsetting |
| Synonyms: | annoying, bothersome, distressing, disturbing, irritating, perplexing, troublesome, worrying, disconcerting, perturbing, troubling, unnerving, unsettling, vexing |
| Antonyms: | calming, pleasing, soothing, settling |
| Main Entry: | disruptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing trouble, confusion |
| Synonyms: | disorderly, disturbing, obstreperous, rowdy, troublesome, unruly, distracting, off-base, out-of-line, out-of-order, troublemaking, unsettling, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | calming, soothing, well-behaved, disciplined, settling |
| Main Entry: | embarrassing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | humiliating, shaming |
| Synonyms: | awkward, confusing, delicate, difficult, disagreeable, distressing, disturbing, equivocal, impossible, inconvenient, inopportune, perplexing, puzzling, sensitive, shameful, sticky, ticklish, touchy, tricky, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unpropitious, unseemly, worrisome, bewildering, compromising, discomfiting, discommoding, discommodious, disconcerting, distracting, exasperating, incommodious, mortifying, rattling, troubling, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | comfortable, unshameful |
| Main Entry: | grievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, painful; serious |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, appalling, atrocious, calamitous, damaging, deplorable, dire, dismal, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, grave, harmful, heavy*, heinous, hurtful, injurious, intolerable, lamentable, monstrous, mournful, offensive, onerous, oppressive, outrageous, pathetic, pitiful, sad, shameful, sharp, shocking, sorrowful, taxing, tough, tragic, troublesome, unbearable, villainous, weighty*, afflicting, heart-rending, upsetting, wounding |
| Antonyms: | good, harmless, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harrowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, frightening |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, alarming, chilling, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, heartbreaking, nerve-racking, painful, soaring, terrifying, heart-rending, racking, tearing, tormenting, torturing, torturous, traumatic |
| Antonyms: | calming, pleasant, pleasing, unfrightening |
| Main Entry: | importunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding, insistent |
| Synonyms: | burning, clamant, clamorous, crying, disturbing, dogged, earnest, exigent, imperative, instant, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, pressing, solicitous, troublesome, urgent, harassing, overly solicitous |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, relaxed, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | inconvenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome, troublesome |
| Synonyms: | annoying, awkward, cumbersome, detrimental, difficult, disadvantageous, disturbing, embarrassing, inexpedient, inopportune, pestiferous, prejudicial, remote, tiresome, troublesome, unmanageable, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, unwieldy, vexatious, discommoding, discommodious, incommodious, unhandy |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, convenient, helpful, aiding |
| Main Entry: | inopportune |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not appropriate or suitable |
| Synonyms: | contrary, disadvantageous, disturbing, ill-timed, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenient, malapropos, troublesome, unfavorable, unfortunate, unpropitious, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, ill-chosen, mistimed |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, auspicious, opportune, suitable, timely, ok |
| Main Entry: | nerve-racking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressing |
| Synonyms: | annoying, disquieting, disturbing, irksome, irritating, maddening, taxing, tense, trying, aggravating, exasperating, stressful, upsetting |
| Main Entry: | nettlesome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, bothersome, burdensome, distressing, disturbing, irksome, troublesome, trying, vexatious, aggravating, exasperating, nagging, vexing |
| Main Entry: | pesky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bothersome |
| Synonyms: | annoying, disturbing, irksome, mean, nettlesome, provoking, troublesome, ugly, vexatious, wicked, peeving, vexing |
| Antonyms: | pleasing, untroubling |
| Main Entry: | seamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, unwholesome |
| Synonyms: | bad, dark, degraded, disagreeable, disappointing, disreputable, disturbing, low, nasty, rough, sordid, squalid, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | respectable, upright, wholesome |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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