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- DictionaryPer·turbed/pərˈtərbd/
adjective
- 1. feeling anxiety or concern; unsettled: "she didn't seem perturbed about the noises around her"
The meaning of PERTURBED is troubled in mind : feeling or showing agitation : bothered, upset. How to use perturbed in a sentence.
worried: He didn't seem unduly / overly perturbed by the news. Synonym. flustered. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. worried. worried I'm worried that he's not going to graduate.
Perturbed definition: feeling or showing great concern or mental or emotional upset. See examples of PERTURBED used in a sentence.
1. : to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet, unsettle. Half way down the next flight, she smiled to think that a char-woman's stare should so perturb her. Edith Wharton. The crowd didn't seem to perturb them in the slightest … Nick Hornby. 2. : to throw into confusion : disorder. perturbing the social order. 3.
When you're perturbed, you're upset by something, and rattled enough by it to be thrown off your usual calmness into a state of confusion. In astronomy, perturbation is defined as "the effects on a large body when it is subjected to gravitational effects from more than one other large body."
frighten someone/something away/off. get/go beyond a joke idiom. give someone the jimjams idiom. give someone the jitters idiom. oppressive. rattle. roost. stressfully. suspensefully. suspensive. swatting. See more results » (Definition of perturb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
adjective. /pəˈtɜːbd/ /pərˈtɜːrbd/ (formal) worried or anxious synonym alarmed. a perturbed young man. perturbed at/about something She didn't seem perturbed at the change of plan. opposite unperturbed. Take your English to the next level. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom. “The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion” see more. verb. cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull.
1. To disturb or confuse; make uneasy or anxious: I was perturbed by his off-color remarks. 2. a. To cause (a system) to become altered or imbalanced from a normal state: volcanic eruptions that perturbed the climate. b. Physics & Astronomy To cause perturbation in (the orbit of a celestial body, for example) by gravitational interaction.
perturbed. (pəʳtɜːʳbd ) adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE, ADJECTIVE that] If someone is perturbed by something, they are worried by it. [formal] He apparently was not perturbed by the prospect of a police officer coming to call. [+ by/at] She was really quite perturbed at the prospect.
