disturbed

1. 1.

   having the place or position changed

   “the disturbed books and papers on her desk”

   “disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed”

   Similardisarranged
2. 2.

   afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

   “too upset to say anything”

   “spent many disquieted moments”

   “distressed about her son's leaving home”

   “lapsed into disturbed sleep”

   “worried parents”

   “a worried frown”

   “one last worried check of the sleeping children”

   Synonymsdisquieteddistressedupsetworried

   Similartroubled
3. 3.

   emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

   Synonymsmaladjusted

   Similarneurotic
4. 4.

   affected with madness or insanity

   “a man who had gone mad”

   Synonymsbrainsickcrazydementedmadsickunbalancedunhinged

   Similarinsane

Other forms of disturbed

comparative

disturbedder·

superlative

disturbeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disturbed

What does disturbed mean?

disturbed means "having the place or position changed". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disturbed?

disturbed has 2 syllables: distur-bed. The stress falls on "bed". In IPA it is /dɪˈstɝbd/.

What is another word for disturbed?

Close synonyms include disquieted, distressed, upset, worried, maladjusted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disturbed a common word?

disturbed is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disturbed?

1 word rhymes with disturbed. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.