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disturbed

UK/dɪsˈtɜːbd//dɪsˈtɝbd/

disturbed adjective: showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis. Also the simple past and past participle of disturb.

Adjective

disturbed (comparative more disturbed, superlative most disturbed)

  1. Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
    • [see title]1997, To Comfort The Disturbed, and to Disturb the Comfortable: Onward Children of the Sun
    • disturbed boy
  2. Extremely alarmed; shocked.
  3. Having been altered or changed.
    • disturbed soil

Also used as

disturbed is also the simple past and past participle of disturb.

disturbed meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati and Odia

disturbed in Bengali

বিচলিত

disturbed in Telugu

కలత చెందుతుంది

disturbed in Gujarati

ખલેલ પહોંચાડી

disturbed in Odia

ବିଚଳିତ

Examples of disturbed in a sentence

  • The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.
  • The bird sanctuary has strict restrictions on visitors so the birds aren't disturbed.
  • Disturbed by my footsteps, the birds rose above the treetops.

All 40 example sentences with disturbed

Forms of disturbed

comparativemore disturbed
superlativemost disturbed

Words formed from disturbed

Phrases with disturbed

Questions about disturbed

What does disturbed mean?
Disturbed means showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
What is disturbed in Bengali?
Disturbed in Bengali is বিচলিত. See Disturbed meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is disturbed?
Disturbed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce disturbed?
Disturbed is pronounced /dɪsˈtɜːbd/ (UK).

Words near disturbed in the dictionary

  1. disturbations
  2. disturbative
  3. disturbaunce
  4. disturbaunces
  5. disturbe
  6. disturbed
  7. disturbed the peace
  8. disturbedly
  9. disturber
  10. disturbers
  11. disturbest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disturbed (page history and authors); disturbed (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disturbed (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disturbed (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disturbed (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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