Synonyms for disturbed
dɪˈstɜrbddis·turbed

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1. disturbed

   Synonyms:
   agitated, boisterous, excited, fierce, frantic, frenzied, furious, heated, passionate, raging, roused, ruffled, stormy, turbulent, violent, wild, wrathful

   Antonyms:
   calm, collected, composed, cool, dispassionate, imperturbable, peaceful, placid, quiet, sedate, self-possessed, serene, smooth, still, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled

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1. disturbedadjective

   having the place or position changed

   "the disturbed books and papers on her desk"; "disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed"

   Synonyms:
   worried, unhinged, disquieted, distressed, sick, demented, crazy, mad, brainsick, maladjusted, unbalanced, upset

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, sane, unneurotic, ordered, arranged

2. disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worriedadjective

   afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

   "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children"

   Synonyms:
   stressed, disordered, mad, unhinged, upset, sick, overturned, worried, upturned, distressed, maladjusted, confused, apprehensive, brainsick, demented, unhappy, hard put, upset(a), broken, hard-pressed, crazy, disquieted, unbalanced, in a bad way(p), dysphoric

   Antonyms:
   arranged, untroubled, sane, unneurotic, ordered

3. disturbed, maladjustedadjective

   emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

   Synonyms:
   worried, unhinged, disquieted, distressed, sick, demented, crazy, mad, brainsick, maladjusted, unbalanced, upset

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, ordered, arranged, sane, unneurotic

4. brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhingedadjective

   affected with madness or insanity

   "a man who had gone mad"

   Synonyms:
   harebrained, insane, nauseous, wan, disgusted, gaga, sore, imbalanced, macabre, brainsick, pallid, sick of(p), sick, grisly, disquieted, half-baked, maladjusted, unbalanced, unhinged, softheaded, gruesome, dotty, unrestrained, grim, sickish, worried, excited, nauseated, sick(p), fed up(p), mad, wild, pale, upset, delirious, demented, screwball, crazy, ghastly, huffy, ill, queasy, distressed, frantic, tired of(p)

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, sane, arranged, ordered, unneurotic

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1. concern

   Submitted by Iwilson on March 1, 2023  

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1. List of paraphrases for "disturbed":

   disrupted, perturbed, troubled, deranged, bothered, restive, concerned, confused, upset, unhinged, turbulent, undisturbed, worried, preoccupied, dismayed, agitated

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1. Bobby Kennedy:

   I went there because I was curious and disturbed by what I had seen in the evidence, i was disturbed that the wrong person might have been convicted of killing my father. My father was the chief law enforcement officer in this country.

2. Carl R. Rogers:

   If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

3. James Thurber:

   I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

4. Scott Sheppard:

   Most objects that we know of interact with the planets in some way so the orbits have been disturbed over the past few billion years, whereas this object is so distant that it may not have been disturbed by planets. So its orbit is a pristine orbit from the formation of the original solar system. If we can get its orbit and understand how it formed and how it got there, it will tell us a lot about the formation of our solar system.

5. Theodore Roszak:

   To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.