PERTURBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perturbed mean? 

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

1. thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERTURBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term)

Synonyms:

flustered; hot and bothered; perturbed; rattled

Similar:

discomposed (having your composure disturbed)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor.

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

"I should" (he looked at her whimsically), "be greatly perturbed."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In that context, the transplanted cells would have been “perturbed,” or removed from their natural environment.

(Cellular barcoding helps scientists understand the behavior of stem cells, National Institutes of Health)

“No doubt the day on which he was perturbed was the day when he had seen of their release in the newspapers.”

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

But he was soon back again, perturbed by a new complication.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Though she betrayed it by no outward sign, I felt, somehow, that she was greatly perturbed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"I'm very sorry to hear of this, Miss March," he said, in the kind, quiet tone which sounded very pleasantly to her perturbed spirit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He sat down to consider, listening to the silence of the forest and perturbed by it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)

I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)