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perturbed
[ per-turbd ]
adjective
- feeling or showing great concern or mental or emotional upset:
The heaviness of his step and the perturbed expression on his face told us that the captain was not in the best of moods.
- greatly disordered or deranged:
He keeps using the same nonsensical phrases and the same perturbed logic, with no sense of the context of the discussion.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of perturb ( def ).
Other Word Forms
- ·ٳܰ·· [per-, tur, -bid-lee], adverb
- ·ٳܰ··Ա noun
- ܲ··ٳܰ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of perturbed1
Example Sentences
They might be especially perturbed when reminded that the high quality of American health care depends largely on the influx of medical doctors and researchers from around the world.
In that defeat, Roberts was particularly perturbed by the club’s quality of at-bats — or lack thereof.
Experts were perturbed by such confident statements in the face of uncertainty, especially as California’s outbreak spiked and a child was mysteriously infected by the same strain of virus found on dairy farms.
He did not seem to perturbed, however, adding: “I am looking to be very supportive of his nomination.”
“We have two granddaughters who live over there and they were a bit perturbed by having 200 people staring at their house. But no, they were very good.”
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