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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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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

“It’s perturbing and upsetting,” said Mark Bookbinder, a 68-year-old engineer who lives in Cincinnati.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

By combining this data with gene expression analysis and the known effects of perturbing specific genes, scientists have ascribed functions to such chromatin marks.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2024

When the military blitz against the Rohingya took place, she seemed unwilling or unable to stop it, perturbing those who had admired her stoic leadership of a democracy movement through years under house arrest.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2022

But we have also been perturbing the climate in the opposite sense.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan