Synonyms of discomposing

discomposing 1 of 2

adjective

as in disturbing

causing worry or anxiety

a discomposing response to our routine query about her health

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disturbing
• unsettling
• troubling
• frightening
• distressing
• troublesome
• upsetting
• nasty
• scary
• nagging
• disquieting
• discomforting
• worrisome
• perturbing
• shocking
• terrible
• horrible
• troublous
• terrifying
• discouraging
• disconcerting
• demoralizing
• dire
• chilling
• disheartening
• daunting
• dismaying
• dread
• dispiriting
• alarming
• fearful
• dreadful
• persecutive
• discomfiting
• direful
• forbidding
• horrifying
• formidable
• persecutory
• harassing
• intimidating
• ghastly
• fearsome
• horrendous
• frightful
• hair-raising

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reassuring
• settling
• soothing
• calming
• narcotic
• relaxing
• comforting
• sedative
• dreamy
• inviting
• consoling
• tranquilizing
• quieting
• tranquillizing
• lulling
• pacifying

discomposing

2 of 2

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bothering
• distracting
• concerning
• alarming
• disturbing
• worrying
• unsettling
• agitating
• distempering
• distressing
• haunting
• angering
• upsetting
• plaguing
• exercising
• annoying
• freaking (out)
• discomforting
• disquieting
• hagriding
• ailing
• undoing
• irritating
• perturbing
• alaruming
• derailing
• weirding out
• flurrying
• unhinging
• dismaying
• confusing
• rattling
• fussing
• embarrassing
• bugging
• putting off
• chivying
• putting out
• frazzling
• aggravating
• harassing
• exasperating
• nettling
• discouraging
• pestering
• chivvying
• shaking up
• chafing
• vexing
• flustering
• grating
• riling
• irking
• harrying
• disconcerting
• nonplussing
• fretting
• getting
• peeving
• discountenancing
• piquing
• galling
• abashing
• mortifying
• bedeviling
• nonplusing
• jarring
• confounding
• discomfiting
• demoralizing
• disheartening
• fazing
• unnerving
• daunting
• dispiriting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• composing
• settling
• soothing
• calming
• quieting
• alleviating
• tranquilizing
• allaying
• assuaging
• tranquillizing
• appeasing
• placating
• conciliating
• pacifying
• propitiating
• mollifying

2

as in disrupting

to undo the proper order or arrangement of

the wind ruffled her hair and discomposed her carefully arranged papers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disrupting
• shuffling
• confusing
• disturbing
• mixing (up)
• dishevelling
• disarraying
• upsetting
• disarranging
• disheveling
• scrambling
• disorganizing
• mussing
• disordering
• tousling
• muddling
• jumbling
• dislocating
• hashing
• messing (up)
• tumbling
• snarling
• deranging
• stirring (up)
• disjointing
• rumpling
• tangling
• embroiling
• unsettling
• cluttering
• perturbing
• entangling
• agitating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• organizing
• ranging
• drawing up
• regulating
• ordering
• disposing
• arranging
• straightening (up)
• lining up
• lining
• tidying
• aligning
• marshalling
• marshaling
• queueing
• arraying
• alining
• classifying
• adjusting
• queuing
• fixing
• codifying
• systematizing
• making up
• methodizing
• grooming
• systemizing
• sprucing (up)
• unscrambling