Disconcerting vs Uneasy - What's the difference?
disconcerting | uneasy |
Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
(rare) Not easy; difficult.
Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=17 Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.
Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.
As adjectives the difference between disconcerting and uneasy
is that disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting while uneasy is (rare) not easy; difficult or uneasy can be restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.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 ."
uneasy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) unesy, equivalent to ; see uneath.Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
From (etyl) unesy, . More at .Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.}}
- I've been uneasy about your friend ever since I met him. Are you sure we can trust him?