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DISQUIETING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disquieting mean? 

DISQUIETING (adjective)
  The adjective DISQUIETING has 1 sense:

1. causing mental discomfortplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


DISQUIETING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing mental discomfort

Context example:

the disquieting sounds of nearby gunfire

Similar:

uncomfortable (conducive to or feeling mental discomfort)


 Context examples 


When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me—I know not whether equally so to others—that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment—where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The word "sensuous" had the effect of further disquieting Tom but before he could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop and Daisy signalled us to draw up alongside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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