Thesaurus
perturbing
Synonyms and Antonyms of perturbing
- the perturbing news meant that we'd have to end our vacation prematurely
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)
Synonyms and Antonyms of perturbing
- the caller's strange remark perturbed me enough to keep me awake that night
agitating, ailing, alarming (also alaruming), bothering, concerning, derailing, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distempering, distracting, distressing, disturbing, exercising, flurrying, frazzling, freaking (out), fussing, hagriding, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out, worrying
aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying (or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexing
bedeviling, haunting, plaguing
abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing (also nonplusing), rattling, shaking up
daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving
calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
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