disconcerting

English

Etymology

From disconcert +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪskənˈsɝtɪŋ/

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Adjective

disconcerting (comparative more disconcerting, superlative most disconcerting)

1. Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.

   Synonyms: unsettling, troubling, upsetting

   Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

     "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting."

Derived terms

• disconcertingly
• disconcertingness

 

Translations

tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting

• Catalan: desconcertant
• Dutch: verontrustend (nl), zorgwekkend (nl)
• Finnish: huolestuttava (fi), hämmentävä (fi), kiusallinen (fi) (socially)
• French: troublant (fr) m
• German: beunruhigend (de), unangenehm (de), befremdlich (de)
• Hungarian: nyugtalanító (hu)
• Italian: sconcertante (it), sconvolgente (it), disorientante (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urovekkende

• Portuguese: desconcertante (pt)