Disconcerting vs Confounding - What's the difference?
disconcerting | confounding |
Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
As an adjective disconcerting
is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.As a verb confounding is
.As a noun confounding is
the act by which things are confounded, or confused.disconcerting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting .
- "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 ."