Thesaurus
disturbing
Synonyms and Antonyms of disturbing
- a disturbing visit by the next-door neighbor while I was trying to study
abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, carking, chafing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, pesty, plaguey (also plaguy), rankling, rebarbative, riling, vexatious, vexing
- there was a disturbing silence as I struggled to remember her name
- a disturbing trend in the nation's energy consumption
daunting, demoralizing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting
harassing, persecutive, persecutory
alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, scary, shocking, terrible, terrifying
calming, quieting, settling, soothing
comforting, consoling, dreamy, inviting, lulling, narcotic, pacifying, relaxing, sedative, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
- a disturbing pause in the normally smooth operation of the machinery
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