| 单词 | disconcert |
| 释义 | disconcert (once / 977 pages) v To disconcert is to unsettle someone, make them feel confused and out of sorts. It's a mixture of to embarrass and to creep out. Disconcert comes from the old French word disconcerter meaning confused, which is just how it feels. The prefix dis means "not" — it has a bad attitude and shows up in dismiss (not accept), dissonence (not harmonious), and disown (not own), among others. After dis comes concert from the word concerter "to bring together" (like at a concert!). If you disconcert someone, it’s like you dis them at a concert, and that person is not having fun. At all. WORD FAMILYdisconcert: disconcerted, disconcerting, disconcertion, disconcertment, disconcerts+/disconcerted: disconcertedly/disconcerting: disconcertingly USAGE EXAMPLESBut he does a very good job of identifying them, providing a thorough if disconcerting tour d’horizon. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Those milestones themselves are a disconcerting harbinger of a warming world, but November brought an even more bizarre event. Salon(Dec 29, 2016) It’s a disconcerting moment even within a film grounded in the imperfect logic of memory. Slate(Dec 28, 2016) 1v cause to lose one's composure Syn|Hypo|Hyper discomfit, discompose, untune, upset enervate, faze, unnerve, unsettle disturb the composure of dissolvecause to lose control emotionally bemuse, bewilder, discombobulate, throwcause to be confused emotionally abash, embarrasscause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious anguish, hurt, paincause emotional anguish or make miserable afflictcause great unhappiness for; distress unmancause to lose one's nerve confuse, flurry, put offcause to feel embarrassment break someone's heartcause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody agonise, agonizecause to agonize aggrieve, grievecause to feel sorrow tribulateoppress or trouble greatly strain, stress, trytest the limits of trygive pain or trouble to excruciate, rack, torment, torturetorment emotionally or mentally arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) 2v cause to feel embarrassment Syn|Hypo|Hyper confuse, flurry, put off bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly fluster cause to be nervous or upset bothermake confused or perplexed or puzzled deflect, distractdraw someone's attention away from something rufflediscompose abash, embarrass cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious |
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