perturbing

ADJECTIVE

disturbing

Synonyms

STRONG

aggravating agitating alarming annoying depressing discommoding discomposing disconcerting discouraging dismaying disquieting distressing embarrassing foreboding frightening harassing impeding irritating perplexing provoking startling threatening troubling trying unsettling upsetting vexing worrying

WEAK

bothersome burdensome consequential creepy difficult disagreeable discomforting disruptive distressful gloomy hard inconvenient intrusive irksome laborious ominous onerous painful pessimistic prophetic severe sinister tiresome toilsome troublesome troublous uncertain unpleasant wearisome worrisome

Antonyms

STRONG

comforting encouraging happy pleasant pleasing soothing

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The last is especially perturbing to the family dog, Starbuck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“Undertone” pulls off this same trick nicely, with pockets of the mysterious audio files sounding genuinely perturbing, causing the audience to expect more scares as Evy and Justin work through all 10 of them.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

I was especially struck by an extremely perturbing exchange between the two, about what appears to be Summers’ embattled pursuit of a woman.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

We now show that perturbing the water layer around the protein, even very slightly, has dramatic effects on collagen assembly.'

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2024

We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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