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discomposing 1 of 2

adjective

as in disturbing
causing worry or anxiety a discomposing response to our routine query about her health

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discomposing

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verb

present participle of discompose
1
as in bothering
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy discomposed by the tone of the message left on his answering machine

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2
as in disrupting
to undo the proper order or arrangement of the wind ruffled her hair and discomposed her carefully arranged papers

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discomposing
  1. disturbing
  2. bothering
  3. disrupting
  4. unsettling
  5. distracting
  6. shuffling
  7. troubling
  8. concerning
Adjective
  • There, Musk’s disturbing lack of empathy would glory in slashing jobs and spending, including on the vital USAID.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2026
  • That part is too real, too disturbing, and Barrett’s hollow script avoids tackling the subject head on.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of disturbing
Verb
  • The list of maladies bothering Ohtani is lengthy, and grew this week.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Ohtani reported that the area from his biceps to his neck was bothering him Wednesday night, Roberts said.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of bothering
Verb
  • Organizations must determine which systems are affected, understand the business consequences of remediation, and test and deploy fixes without disrupting critical operations.
    — Shane Buckley, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The researchers learned that parents were concerned by low-flying helicopter noise disrupting their children’s sleep and affecting their brain health.
    — Caroline Montojo, STAT, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of disrupting
Adjective
  • The tiny farming settlement of Poilley, in Brittany, would become her home for the next eight years, and the subject of more than 50,000 intimate, often unsettling photographs.
    — Felix Bazalgette, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • And an overture from an ABC exec (Jessica Hecht) to Andie to jump ship represents another kind of unsettling grooming.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of unsettling
Verb
  • The tale of any historical figure is also one of time and place, but despite these looming ideas, the film’s particular unspooling has a distracting quality.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Suppressing tics as treatment Suppressing tics can be distracting and exhausting, yet decades of research has shown that tic suppression can be strengthened and used therapeutically.
    — Michael Okun, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of distracting
Verb
  • The filmmaker has likened his perspective in this project to that of Dorothy’s dog Toto in The Wizard of Oz, alert to the shuffling feet beneath the curtain rather than being bamboozled by the shyster title character’s techno showmanship.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Not much else changed in Class 5A, besides Azle and Arlington Seguin shuffling down two spots with Week 2 losses.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of shuffling
Adjective
  • The friends, who had a key to the house, entered the home and immediately noticed several troubling signs.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The campaign was far from the report’s most troubling example of AI misuse.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of troubling
Verb
  • Flowers aggravated a summer hamstring issue and Lane’s wrist injury could be concerning.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The rest of the firm’s case doesn’t need help from the Fed to look concerning on its own.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of concerning
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“Discomposing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discomposing. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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