DISCOMPOSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discomposed mean? 

• DISCOMPOSED (adjective)
  The adjective DISCOMPOSED has 1 sense:

1. having your composure disturbed

  Familiarity information: DISCOMPOSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCOMPOSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having your composure disturbed

Context example:

looked about with a wandering and discomposed air

Similar:

abashed; chagrined; embarrassed (feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed)

blushful; blushing; red-faced (having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset)

bothered; daunted; fazed (caused to show discomposure)

discombobulated; disconcerted (having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion)

flustered; hot and bothered; perturbed; rattled (thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term))

unstrung (emotionally upset)

Also:

agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)

undignified (lacking dignity)

Antonym:

composed (serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress)

 Context examples 

Mr. Littimer, without being at all discomposed, signified by a slight obeisance, that anything that was most agreeable to us was most agreeable to him; and began again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He certainly is greatly, very greatly discomposed; I have seldom seen him more so.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Such doings discomposed Mr. Bennet exceedingly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Miss Steele was the least discomposed of the three, by their presence; and it was in their power to reconcile her to it entirely.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Between ten and eleven Edmund and Julia walked into the drawing-room, fresh with the evening air, glowing and cheerful, the very reverse of what they found in the three ladies sitting there, for Maria would scarcely raise her eyes from her book, and Lady Bertram was half-asleep; and even Mrs. Norris, discomposed by her niece's ill-humour, and having asked one or two questions about the dinner, which were not immediately attended to, seemed almost determined to say no more.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We should not have been much discomposed, I dare say, by the appearance of Steerforth himself, but we became in a moment the meekest of the meek before his respectable serving-man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But Mrs. Elton was very much discomposed indeed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

However, I was terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it was but of half an hour: for the horse went about forty feet at every step and trotted so high, that the agitation was equal to the rising and falling of a ship in a great storm, but much more frequent.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)