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Excruciating vs Disconcerting - What's the difference?

excruciating | disconcerting |

As adjectives the difference between excruciating and disconcerting

is that excruciating is causing great pain or anguish, agonizing while disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.

excruciating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
    • the nation's most excruciating dilemma -- W. H. Ferry (rfdate)
  • Exceedingly intense; extreme

    • Related terms

    * cruciate * excruciate * excruciatingly

    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 ."