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Concerning vs Disconcerting - What's the difference?

concerning | disconcerting |

As adjectives the difference between concerning and disconcerting

is that concerning is causing concern; worrisome while disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.

As a preposition concerning

is regarding, respecting.

As a verb concerning

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun concerning

is that which one is concerned in; one's business.

concerning

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing concern; worrisome.
  • (obsolete) important
  • * South
    • So great and so concerning truth.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Regarding, respecting.
  • * Bible, Numbers x. 29
    • The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which one is concerned in; one's business.
  • * William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
    • We shall write to you, / As Time and our Concernings shall importune, / How it goes with us, and do look to know / What doth befall you here.

    disconcerting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
    • Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting .
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting ."