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It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
Penelope Lively

Meaning of "disconcerting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISCONCERTING

disconcerting  [ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISCONCERTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disconcerting is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DISCONCERTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of disconcerting in the English dictionary

The definition of disconcerting in the dictionary is causing a feeling of disturbance, embarrassment, or confusion; perturbing; worrying.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISCONCERTING


beating
ˈbiːtɪŋ
cheating
ˈtʃiːtɪŋ
computing
kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ
diverting
daɪˈvɜːtɪŋ
eating
ˈiːtɪŋ
greeting
ˈɡriːtɪŋ
heating
ˈhiːtɪŋ
meeting
ˈmiːtɪŋ
recruiting
rɪˈkruːtɪŋ
reporting
rɪˈpɔːtɪŋ
seating
ˈsiːtɪŋ
self-asserting
ˌselfəˈsɜːtɪŋ
shirting
ˈʃɜːtɪŋ
shooting
ˈʃuːtɪŋ
skirting
ˈskɜːtɪŋ
smirting
ˈsmɜːtɪŋ
sporting
ˈspɔːtɪŋ
supporting
səˈpɔːtɪŋ
troubleshooting
ˈtrʌbəlʃuːtɪŋ
undiverting
ˌʌndaɪˈvɜːtɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISCONCERTING

disconcert
disconcerted
disconcertedly
disconcertedness
disconcertingly
disconcertion
disconcertment
disconfirm
disconfirmation
disconformable
disconformities
disconformity
disconnect
disconnected
disconnectedly
disconnectedness
disconnecter
disconnection
disconnective
disconnexion

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISCONCERTING

accounting
blokarting
cold starting
comforting
darting
discomforting
go-carting
go-karting
importing
karting
nonsporting
parallel importing
parting
ripsnorting
self-supporting
snorting
sorting
Storting
sweethearting
unsporting
water parting

Synonyms and antonyms of disconcerting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DISCONCERTING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «disconcerting» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of disconcerting

Translation of «disconcerting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISCONCERTING

Find out the translation of disconcerting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of disconcerting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disconcerting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

令人不安的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desconcertante
570 millions of speakers

English

disconcerting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चिंताजनक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مربكة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

замешательство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desconcertante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

disconcerting
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déroutant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Membingungkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

beunruhigend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

まごつかせる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

당황케하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bingung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bối rối
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिडचिड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaygılı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sconcertante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niepokojące
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

замішання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deconcertant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανησυχητικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontstellend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förbryllande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

urovekkende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disconcerting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISCONCERTING»

The term «disconcerting» is regularly used and occupies the 57.401 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISCONCERTING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about disconcerting

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10 QUOTES WITH «DISCONCERTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word disconcerting.
1
E. T. Bell
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
2
Morris Raphael Cohen
This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
3
Eliza Dushku
The letters from jail are always disconcerting.
4
Elizabeth George
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
5
Learned Hand
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
6
Jack Horner
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
7
A. J. Liebling
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
8
Penelope Lively
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
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Lance Morrow
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
10
Julia Quinn
Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISCONCERTING»

Discover the use of disconcerting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disconcerting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Disconcerting Pyramids of Poverty and Inequality of ...
2005 International Monetary Fund WP/O5/47 IIVIF Working Paper African Department The Disconcerting Pyramids of Poverty and Inequality of Sub- Saharan Africa Prepared by Paulo Silva Lopesl Authorized for distribution by Jean A. P. ...
Paulo Silva Lopes, 2005
2
Setting the Record Straight: A Material History of Classical ...
Disconcerting. Music. Performers. and. Composers. on. die. Record. In John Sebastian Bach's day it was necessary for him to walk ten miles to a neighbouring town to hear Buxtehude play his works. Today anyone, living no matter where, has ...
Colin Symes, 2004
3
Centurion's Disconcerting Cases
Centurion Spur, private eye and long term resident of Duluth, Minnesota tackles two difficult cases, one involving an errant runaway woman-child who is more than she appears to be and the other involving a foreign government seeking to harm ...
Kenneth R. Bryan, 2010
4
I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of ...
A collection of photos features misspelled and ungrammatical signs from across the United States and the world, along with captions that further clarify or amplify their humorous aspects, including "We are doing toilets cleaning, so sorry ...
Sharon Eliza Nichols, 2009
5
On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year
It is highly disconcerting when the plumbing in one's apartment, which is old and peevish, ominously gurgles and clunks, when soapy water, frilled bits oflettuce, burble up in one's sink each time the neighbor washes his dishes, and the ...
Lee Ann Roripaugh, 2009
6
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Cambodia: The. Country. of. Disconcerting. Crimes. Jean-Louis Margolin We must give a pure and perfect depiction of the history of the Party. Pol Pot I he lineage from Mao Zedong to Pol Pot is obvious. This is one of the paradoxes that make ...
Stéphane Courtois, Mark Kramer, 1999
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English Radicalism, 1550-1850
Disconcerting. Ideas: Explaining. Popular. Radicalism. and. Popular. Loyalism. in . the. 1/oos. Mark Philp This paper examines some of the assumptions that underlie our analyses of the popular radicalism and popular loyalism of the 1790s.
Glenn Burgess, Matthew Festenstein, 2007
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The Moderator's Survival Guide: Handling Common, Tricky, and ...
The participant has some type of physical attribute that you find distracting or disconcerting. Many ofthese attributes may be relatively unconscious or uncontrollable (e.g., a participant who is sweating heavily, blinks constantly, or has a large ...
Donna Tedesco, Fiona Tranquada, 2013
9
André Breton: The Power of Language
For the Gnosties, Bataille asserted in 'Base Materialism and Gnosticism', it was a question of 'disconcerting the human spirit and idealism before something base', the better to awaken the mind to that which emanates from outside this world.
Ramona Fotiade, 2000
10
Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
DISCONCERTING MOVEMENTS From a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association: This reader . . . was stunned by Dr. Liptak's statement about the "disconcerting" aspects of disconnecting children from ventilators: "They ...
Margaret Lock, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISCONCERTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disconcerting is used in the context of the following news items.
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Giants kept in dark on JPP burn mystery: 'Disconcerting' | New York …
Disconcerting'' is a word a team source used to describe the scenario, which is growing more curious with every moment that passes without ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
2
[VIDEO] 'Fargo' Season 2: Kirsten Dunst, Ted Danson in Teasers …
Snow, Minnesota accents and one disconcerting trip to the hair salon: That's what you'll find in the latest teasers for Fargo's second season. «TVLine, Jul 15»
3
A Number, Young Vic, London — review - FT.com
It is brilliant, gripping, disconcerting — and beautifully served in Michael Longhurst's nuanced revival by father and son John and Lex Shrapnel. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
4
Bad day for geeks: Tech disruptions plague United, NYSE, WSJ …
The length of Wednesday's outages also is disconcerting, Gartner's Litan said. It took the New York Stock Exchange until 3:10 p.m. - just over three and a half ... «WMC Action News 5, Jul 15»
5
I am lucky to get help in looking after my father. But many families of …
Perhaps even more disconcerting is the revelation that a quarter of the 1,013 family doctors polled admitted reluctance in making early referrals ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
FSU's Everett Golson, Sean Maguire will battle to replace Jameis …
... be his mental toughness, Maguire's rocky start and bad body language in the fourth quarter had to be disconcerting for FSU's coaching staff. «Orlando Sentinel, Jul 15»
7
Philippines asks tribunal to invalidate China's sea claims | News OK
"China's positions and behavior have become progressively more aggressive and disconcerting," del Rosario told the tribunal. "Outside ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
8
Srebrenica remains an open wound, 20 years later - SWI swissinfo.ch
"An entire generation has come of age with the denial of accountability often presented as the only 'truth,' and that is disconcerting," said Dijana ... «swissinfo.ch, Jul 15»
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China's economy has hit 'critical mass' but is still healthy | Financial …
The rout on Chinese stock markets on Wednesday may appear disconcerting to global investors — coming at the same time as the disruptive ... «Financial Post, Jul 15»
10
A bad day for technology at NYSE, United Airlines and Wall Street …
The length of Wednesday's two other outages was disconcerting, Gartner's Litan said. It took the New York Stock Exchange until 3:10 p.m. ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»

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