Definitions for disturbing
dis·turb·ing

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1. distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worryingadjective

   causing distress or worry or anxiety

   "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"

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1. disturbingadjective

   Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.

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1. Disturbing

   of Disturb

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'disturbing' in Adjectives Frequency: #1035

How to pronounce disturbing?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of disturbing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of disturbing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of disturbing in a Sentence

1. Clare Mosley:

   For a British home secretary to accuse and castigate ordinary people when the facts of this incident are not yet even known is shocking and disturbing, this is not simply a careless, off-the-cuff emotional response. It is a misleading, opportunistic smoke screen concocted to deflect attention from the multiple warnings Clare Mosley has had about what was clearly going to happen at Napier Barracks.

2. Judy Norton:

   And then she starts experiencing concerning and disturbing phenomenon in her world… And she doesn’t know if she’s literally going crazy because her mother has, or if someone is stalking or manipulating her for some unknown, sinister reason… There was a lot of acting and emotional demands to it. And she’s also different from other characters I typically played. But I wanted that challenge to stretch myself outside of my comfort zone. i guess at my core, I’m an artist.

3. Joe Fasula:

   While it is always a shame when food is wasted, in these times when so many people are worried about the security of our food supply, it is even more disturbing.

4. Michael Avenatti:

   The president had effectively an extramarital affair slush fund that was administered by Michael Cohen and that he would just be expected to take care of these things, they were a regular occurrence. I mean, that in and of itself should be very disturbing.

5. Jonathan Friedman:

   It is deeply disturbing to see a group of students engaged in this kind of conduct, this symbolic gesture aimed not just to reject or refute ideas but to obliterate the very paper on which they were written... It behooves the university to educate its students about why book burning is so inimical to open discourse and free expression.

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