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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disconcerting, upsettingadjective

    causing an emotional disturbance

    "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"

Wiktionary

  1. disconcertingadjective

    Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.

    Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.

ChatGPT

  1. disconcerting

    Disconcerting refers to anything causing feelings of unease, discomfort, confusion or distress, often due to an unexpected or disturbing situation or fact.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Disconcerting

    of Disconcert

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disconcerting in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disconcerting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of disconcerting in a Sentence

  1. Roseanne Barr:

    Jessica was becoming a textbook Mean Girl. I was being slowly swallowed alive by my anxiety, and Jake was silently watching it all happen, which was maybe the most disconcerting of all our reactions, our family was falling apart, and the stress of falling apart was making us fall apart even faster.

  2. Beverly Sills:

    I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

  3. Fabrice:

    My computer displayed the surprising and at least disconcerting following message: "Error. No keyboard. Press F1 to continue!"

  4. Denyse Holt:

    I didn't send my older daughter a Wordle( score) in the morning and that was disconcerting to her.

  5. Jim Clyburn:

    We find some real issues trying to figure out why it is that when we decided to support his bill, he seems to be supporting a filibuster of his own bill, that, to us, is very disconcerting.

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