Disconcerting vs Disturbing - What's the difference?
disconcerting | disturbing |
Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing .}}
As adjectives the difference between disconcerting and disturbing
is that disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting while disturbing is causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.As a verb disturbing is
present participle of lang=en.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 ."
