disturbingadjective
uk/dɪˈstɜː.bɪŋ/us/dɪˈstɝː.bɪŋ/C2 making you feel worried or upset:
The article described the latest crime figures as "disturbing".
The following programme contains scenes that may be disturbing to some viewers.
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- She was strangely calm - I found it quite disturbing.
- On one level I quite like the attention but on another level, I suppose I find it a bit disturbing.
- I heard something rather disturbing at work this morning.
- A disturbing trend for insurers has been a rise in fraudulent claims.
- It's disturbing that such a prominent politician is so easily led.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Causing anxiety and worry
- alarming
- bite
- catch up with sb
- come back to bite sb idiom
- come back/home to roost idiom
- flap
- get/go beyond a joke idiom
- give sb the jitters idiom
- gnaw
- harass
- haunt
- joke
- sweat
- tense
- troubling
- unnerve
- unsettling
- weigh
- weigh on sb/sth
- weigh sb down
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disturbingly
adverb uk/dɪˈstɜː.bɪŋ.li/us/dɪˈstɝː.bɪŋ.li/
Pollution has reached disturbingly high levels in some urban areas.