perturbed

American  

[per-turbd] / pərˈtɜrbd /

adjective

1. feeling or showing great concern or mental or emotional upset.

   The heaviness of his step and the perturbed expression on his face told us that the captain was not in the best of moods.

2. greatly disordered or deranged.

   He keeps using the same nonsensical phrases and the same perturbed logic, with no sense of the context of the discussion.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of perturb.

Other Word Forms

• perturbedly adverb
• perturbedness noun
• unperturbed adjective

Etymology

Origin of perturbed

perturb + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Loznitsa includes multiple terse scenes of Kornev walking up endless stairs or waiting for a perturbed guard to unlock a door that will lead him to another door that also requires a key.

From Los Angeles Times

“I am somewhat perturbed. Are we not friends? Why did you not simply ask me to join you at the river?”

From Literature

So my advice to people during these times is just do your job and show they were wrong and act like you’re unperturbed by it even though you are perturbed by it.

From The Wall Street Journal

He talked in friendly terms about the western allies that had been most perturbed by his social media posts.

From BBC

“I can’t even believe it,” a visibly perturbed Putin said on camera.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• annoyed
• irritated