DISTURBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disturbed mean? 

• DISTURBED (adjective)
  The adjective DISTURBED has 4 senses:

1. having the place or position changed

2. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

3. emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

4. affected with madness or insanity

  Familiarity information: DISTURBED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTURBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the place or position changed

Context example:

disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed

Similar:

disarranged (having the arrangement disturbed; not in order)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

Synonyms:

disquieted; distressed; disturbed; upset; worried

Context example:

one last worried check of the sleeping children

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

Synonyms:

disturbed; maladjusted

Similar:

neurotic; psychoneurotic (affected with emotional disorder)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Affected with madness or insanity

Synonyms:

brainsick; crazy; demented; disturbed; mad; sick; unbalanced; unhinged

Context example:

a man who had gone mad

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

 Context examples 

Unconsciously we had all moved towards the door, and as we moved I noticed that the dust had been much disturbed: the boxes which had been taken out had been brought this way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A procedure that uses sound waves to measure characteristics of disturbed bood flow, such as direction, velocity and turbulence.

(Doppler Echocardiography, NCI Thesaurus)

The children were inconsolable, and Mr. Bhaer's hair stuck straight up all over his head, for he always rumpled it wildly when disturbed in mind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient get irritated and easily disturbed?

(NPI - Get Irritated and Easily Disturbed, NCI Thesaurus)

At supper I requested the hunters to lower their voices, so she was not disturbed; and it was not till next morning that she made her appearance.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Exposure to nitrobenzene irritates the skin, eyes and respiratory tract and can result in methemoglobinemia causing fatigue, dyspnea, dizziness, disturbed vision, shortness of breath, collapse and even death.

(Nitrobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)

My unfortunate friend the waiter, who had quite recovered his spirits, did not appear to be disturbed by this, but joined in the general admiration without being at all confused.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A question about an individual's disturbed sleep at its worst.

(Disturbed Sleep at its Worst, NCI Thesaurus)