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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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perturbed He didn't seem unduly perturbed by the news. fretful She got a fretful night's sleep after the dreadful news. anxious All this waiting is making me anxious.
The meaning of PERTURBED is troubled in mind : feeling or showing agitation : bothered, upset. How to use perturbed in a sentence.
Perturbed means feeling or showing great concern or mental or emotional upset, or greatly disordered or deranged. Learn more about the word history, origin and usage of perturbed with Dictionary.com.
frighten someone/something away/offphrasal verb. get in someone's headidiom. get/go beyond a jokeidiom. give someone the jimjamsidiom. oppressive. rattle. roost. stressfully. suspensefully. suspensive. See more results » (Definition of perturb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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 ...
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.
