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disturbing

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪsˈtɜː.bɪŋ//
  • United States//dɪsˈtɝ.bɪŋ//

Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.

adjective

  1. 1

    Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.

    A disturbing film that tries to explore the mind of a serial killer.

    His behaviour is very disturbing.

    I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of disturbpresent participle and gerund of disturb

Forms

comparative
more disturbing
superlative
most disturbing
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).