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disturbed

adj · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /dɪsˈtɜːbd/
  • US: /dɪsˈtɝbd/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S T ER1 B D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • disturbed boy
  • disturbed child
  • disturbed patient
  • mentally disturbed
  • disturbed state
  • He felt deeply disturbed after hearing the news.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Extremely alarmed; shocked.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Having been altered or changed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • disturbed soil

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

simple past and past participle of disturb

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective satellite

Meaning 5

emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: maladjusted

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

having the place or position changed

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

affected with madness or insanity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a man who had gone mad

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged

Antonyms: none provided

8

adjective satellite

Meaning 8

afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: narušený — showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis
  • Dutch: gestoord — showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis
  • German: gestört — showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis
  • Hungarian: zavart — showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis
  • Norman: dêrangi — showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis
  • Spanish: trastornado — showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis
  • Swedish: störd — showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis
  • Latin: sollicitus — extremely alarmed
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