DISCONCERTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disconcerting mean? 

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

1. causing an emotional disturbance

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCONCERTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing an emotional disturbance

Synonyms:

disconcerting; upsetting

Context example:

an upsetting experience

Similar:

displeasing (causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities)

 Context examples 

"I think them, well, very disconcerting," she replied.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Another disconcerting thing was that it made no outcry, such as he had been accustomed to with the other dogs he had fought.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was a little disconcerting to me, to find, when I was being helped up behind the coach, that I was supposed to have eaten all the dinner without any assistance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Martin had encountered his sister Gertrude by chance on Broadway—as it proved, a most propitious yet disconcerting chance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was agreeably surprised to find that Littimer was not there, and that we were attended by a modest little parlour-maid, with blue ribbons in her cap, whose eye it was much more pleasant, and much less disconcerting, to catch by accident, than the eye of that respectable man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Just as Ruth's face, in a momentary jealousy had called before his eyes a forgotten moonlight gale, and as Professor Caldwell made him see again the Northeast Trade herding the white billows across the purple sea, so, from moment to moment, not disconcerting but rather identifying and classifying, new memory-visions rose before him, or spread under his eyelids, or were thrown upon the screen of his consciousness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And then came that disconcerting ride. We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)