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- Dictionarydisturbed/dɪˈstəːbd/
adjective
- 1. having had the normal pattern or functioning disrupted: "disturbed sleep" Similar Opposite
- 2. having or resulting from emotional and mental problems: "the treatment of disturbed children" Similar Opposite
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not thinking or behaving normally because of mental or emotional problems: emotionally disturbed a centre for emotionally disturbed teenagers. mentally disturbed A mentally disturbed man entered the cockpit of the plane and tried to seize the controls. Synonym. unhinged.
The meaning of DISTURBED is experiencing or exhibiting emotional disturbance or agitation : having a mental disability or illness. How to use disturbed in a sentence.
to cause someone to stop what the person is doing, or to interrupt an activity: Please don’t disturb Jimmy – he’s trying to do his homework. disturb verb [T] (WORRY)
Disturbed definition: marked by symptoms of mental illness. See examples of DISTURBED used in a sentence.
A disturbed person is very upset emotionally, and often needs special care or treatment.
Disturbed can be used to describe somebody who has problems with mental health because of very unhappy or unpleasant experiences: He works with emotionally disturbed children. Insane is a formal or old-fashioned term used in the past to describe somebody with a serious mental illness.
If something is disturbed, it's been moved or changed — it's not positioned or functioning the way it usually does. Traveling across the globe gives many people disturbed sleep patterns.
DISTURB meaning: 1. to interrupt what someone is doing: 2. to break the law by behaving unpleasantly and noisily in…. Learn more.
disturbed mentally ill, especially because of very unhappy or shocking experiences: He works with emotionally disturbed children. unstable having emotions and behavior that are likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly
Define disturbed. disturbed synonyms, disturbed pronunciation, disturbed translation, English dictionary definition of disturbed. adj. 1. Unsettled, broken up, or altered in structure or function: disturbed soil. 2. Being or resulting from being emotionally or mentally troubled: taught...
