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perturbed
[per-turbd]
adjective
feeling or showing great concern or mental or emotional upset.
The heaviness of his step and the perturbed expression on his face told us that the captain was not in the best of moods.
greatly disordered or deranged.
He keeps using the same nonsensical phrases and the same perturbed logic, with no sense of the context of the discussion.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of perturb.
Other 51Թ Forms
- perturbedly adverb
- perturbedness noun
- unperturbed adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of perturbed1
Example Sentences
“I’m bummed. I’m disappointed. I don’t think Casey Stengel could change the outcome of that ballclub,’’ a perturbed Roberts told reporters Sunday.
Facing the blank page perturbed Boneta at the beginning of his first foray into long-form writing, so he asked his writer friends for advice.
They might be especially perturbed when reminded that the high quality of American health care depends largely on the influx of medical doctors and researchers from around the world.
In that defeat, Roberts was particularly perturbed by the club’s quality of at-bats — or lack thereof.
Experts were perturbed by such confident statements in the face of uncertainty, especially as California’s outbreak spiked and a child was mysteriously infected by the same strain of virus found on dairy farms.
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