Disconcerting vs Irritating - What's the difference?
disconcerting | irritating | Related terms |
Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
Stimulating]] or [[excite, exciting a response.
Disconcerting is a related term of irritating.
As adjectives the difference between disconcerting and irritating
is that disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting while irritating is causing irritation, annoyance or pain.As a verb irritating is
.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 ."