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Disconcerting vs Dismissive - What's the difference?

disconcerting | dismissive |

As adjectives the difference between disconcerting and dismissive

is that disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting while dismissive is showing disregard, indicating rejection, serving to dismiss.

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 ."

    dismissive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing disregard, indicating rejection, serving to dismiss.

    • Synonyms

    * contemptuous * indifferent

    Derived terms

    * dismissively * dismissiveness