Synonyms for disturbed
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Anxious
anxious, uneasy, perturbed, upset, worried, distraught, troubled, disquieted, restless, nervous, unquiet, distressed, turbulent, agitated, unsettled
2. Sick
sick informal, mad, crazy, deranged, insane, unbalanced, unhinged, demented, screwy, brainsick, psychotic, delirious, cracked, nutty, daft, batty, bonkers informal UK, barmy dated
3. Maladjusted
Definitions
- adj. 1
Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
He felt deeply disturbed after hearing the news.
- adj. 2
Extremely alarmed; shocked.
- adj. 3
Having been altered or changed.
Example sentences
- upset Tom was too upset to talk about what had happened.
- anxious I'm anxious to know the results of the blood test.
- uneasy Tom felt uneasy talking to Mary about that matter.
- perturbed Leonid was visibly perturbed by that.
- unbalanced I don't believe that you're mentally unbalanced.
- deranged A seriously deranged person lived in that forest.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| disturbed | falling | |
| upset | rising | |
| anxious | steady | |
| uneasy | rising | |
| perturbed | steady | |
| unbalanced | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- mad1
- 4 letters
- sick1, daft1
- 5 letters
- crazy2, upset2, nutty2, batty2, barmy, schiz
- 6 letters
- insane2, uneasy3, screwy2, turbid2
- 7 letters
- worried2, nervous2, anxious2, cracked1, bonkers2, unquiet
- 8 letters
- troubled2, restless2, agitated4, deranged2, neurotic3, unhinged2, demented3
- 9 letters
- turbulent3, psychotic3, unsettled3, delirious4, perturbed2, brainsick
- 10 letters
- distressed2, unbalanced3, distraught2, disquieted
- 11 letters
- maladjusted4
- 14 letters
- psychoneurotic
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (crazy2 = 2 syllables).