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Word:
disconcerting
IPA transcription: [d,ɪskəns'ɝtɪŋ]
Pronunciations of disconcerting
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
disconcerting, upsetting
Meaning:
causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
Usage examples
Vincent's reception of these proposals was disconcerting.
When he did bring up it was with disconcerting suddenness.
What I say, I afterwards find disconcerting to recall. I want to alter it.
After the statement, "Learn of Me," Christ throws in the disconcerting qualification:
There came a pause which was almost as disconcerting as had been the previous rapid movements.
Other impressions, less ultimate, proved puzzling, disconcerting, and paradoxically reassuring.
Yet there in Paris the problems of Europe were terrible and clamant, and an occasional return to the vast unconcern of London a little disconcerting.
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