perturbed
to be worried and uneasy
TRANSLATION
perturbed = beunruhigt, gestört (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX perturbed: approximately 7,000,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his coalition are especially PERTURBED by a still-lively hashish and marijuana market…
(Spiegel Online, English edition)
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Even Michael, already half asleep, knew that she was PERTURBED, and he asked, "Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
- The Adventures of Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie
(Spiegel Online, English edition)
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Even Michael, already half asleep, knew that she was PERTURBED, and he asked, "Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
- The Adventures of Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie
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perturbed
verb (an inflected form of the transitive verb "perturb")
- to be disturbed, uneasy or anxious
- to be thrown into confusion
- to have caused a disturbance of motion, course or state of equilibrium (physics, especially relating to the disturbance of orbiting objects)
(Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Perturb(ed) likely originated from the Old French perturber (14th century) by way of the Latin perturbare, meaning to confuse, disorder or disturb (per = through + turbare = disturb, confuse). Perturbare itself comes from turbo, turbinis (genitive), which means vortex or hurricane. In turn, turbo is related to turba, turbae by way of the Greek tyrbe, both of which mean confusion or crowd.
While perturbed can mean being worried about something very serious, the word is more often used in the context of less important, but annoying things.
The New York Times published an article about how people manage situations that perturb them on a day-to-day basis. Numerous readers responded with examples of their own frustration and how they deal with them. One reader, irritated that a colleague helped himself to the biscuits she brought to work each day, finally replaced them with dog biscuits that had the appearance of real biscuits. That brought a quick end to the biscuit stealing.
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SYNONYMS
annoyed, anxious, bothered, concerned, distressed, disturbed, flustered, irritated, troubled, uneasy, upset, uptight, worried sick
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
calm, happy, unconcerned, undisturbed, untroubled, unworried
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I'm really perturbed by their lack of participation on the project. I feel like I'm managing this thing on my own."
verb (an inflected form of the transitive verb "perturb")
- to be disturbed, uneasy or anxious
- to be thrown into confusion
- to have caused a disturbance of motion, course or state of equilibrium (physics, especially relating to the disturbance of orbiting objects)
(Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Perturb(ed) likely originated from the Old French perturber (14th century) by way of the Latin perturbare, meaning to confuse, disorder or disturb (per = through + turbare = disturb, confuse). Perturbare itself comes from turbo, turbinis (genitive), which means vortex or hurricane. In turn, turbo is related to turba, turbae by way of the Greek tyrbe, both of which mean confusion or crowd.
While perturbed can mean being worried about something very serious, the word is more often used in the context of less important, but annoying things.
The New York Times published an article about how people manage situations that perturb them on a day-to-day basis. Numerous readers responded with examples of their own frustration and how they deal with them. One reader, irritated that a colleague helped himself to the biscuits she brought to work each day, finally replaced them with dog biscuits that had the appearance of real biscuits. That brought a quick end to the biscuit stealing.
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SYNONYMS
annoyed, anxious, bothered, concerned, distressed, disturbed, flustered, irritated, troubled, uneasy, upset, uptight, worried sick
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
calm, happy, unconcerned, undisturbed, untroubled, unworried
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I'm really perturbed by their lack of participation on the project. I feel like I'm managing this thing on my own."
